. The parks and gardens of Paris, considered in relation to the wants of other cities and of the public and private gardens; being notes on a study of Paris gardens. Gardening; Gardens; Parks. uhap. xviiij the coedon system op FEUIT-GEOWING. 281 term, but prevent the inventor's simple idea from being under- stood. However, the figures in this chapter will give a correct idea of what the cordon system is. A simple galvanised wire is attached to a strong oak post or rod of iron, so firmly fixed that the strain of the wire may not disturb it. The wire is usually supported at a distance of one foo
. The parks and gardens of Paris, considered in relation to the wants of other cities and of the public and private gardens; being notes on a study of Paris gardens. Gardening; Gardens; Parks. uhap. xviiij the coedon system op FEUIT-GEOWING. 281 term, but prevent the inventor's simple idea from being under- stood. However, the figures in this chapter will give a correct idea of what the cordon system is. A simple galvanised wire is attached to a strong oak post or rod of iron, so firmly fixed that the strain of the wire may not disturb it. The wire is usually supported at a distance of one foot from the ground, and tightened by a raidisseur, a handy little implement de- scribed elsewhere in this volume. A raidisseur will tighten several hundred feet of the wire, which need not be thicker than strong twine, and of the same sort as that recommended for walls and espaliers. The galvanised wire known as No. 14 is the most suitable for general use. At intervals a support of wood or iron with an eye in it is placed under the wire on which the tree is trained; thus forming the simplest and best kind of cordon, and the one so extensively employed for making edgings around the squares in fruit-gardens. By selecting good kinds and training them in this way abundance of the finest fruit may be grown without having any of the large trees or those of any other form in the garden to shade or occupy its surface. The bilateral cordon is useful for the same purposes as the simple one, and especially adapted to the bottoms of walls, bare spaces between the fruit-trees, the fronts of pits, or any low bare wall with a warm exposure. As in many cases the lower parts of walls in gardens are quite bare, this form of cordon offers an opportunity for cover- ing them with what will yield a certain and valuable return. It is by this method that the finest-coloured, largest, and best French apples sold in Oovent Garden and in the Paris fruit-shops at such high prices are grown. In Coveut Garde
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