. 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. 404 THE PAEKS AND aAEDENS OP PARIS. [Chap. XXIII. there is no eyidence, howeyer, proving this form to be better than the simple pyramid. The excellent practice of cutting in pyramidal and other trees that happen to be worthless varieties, and re-grafting them with superior kinds, is much practised by the French growers and amateurs. This system is quite as applicable to wall-trees as to pyramids or stand
. 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. 404 THE PAEKS AND aAEDENS OP PARIS. [Chap. XXIII. there is no eyidence, howeyer, proving this form to be better than the simple pyramid. The excellent practice of cutting in pyramidal and other trees that happen to be worthless varieties, and re-grafting them with superior kinds, is much practised by the French growers and amateurs. This system is quite as applicable to wall-trees as to pyramids or standards. In numbers of our gardens great good might be effected by re- graf tingwith good vari- eties, and doing away with the worthless ones so very commonly seen. The columnar mode of training to be seen here and there in France, is considered better than the pyra- midal form, where saving of space is an object, and where too much shading of the crops by the trees is undesirable. The woodcut on page 333 shows a tree before the winter-pruning takes place, and, as will be seen, it is an erect stem densely furnished with short fruiting- branches. Except on the Quince in suitable soils, it is not likely to present many advantages; for if on the Pear and confined thus closely to a fastigiate bundle of shoots, it would in all pro- bability run too high to permit of proper annual pruning or of the crop being gathered with convenience. Judging by the strength and thickness displayed by our old horizontal wall-trees grafted on the Pear-stock, we should, if we adopted a contracted form like this with trees worked on the Pear, in a few years have objects more like rustic gate-posts than Wall Pear-tree re-grafted. On each of the hrancJus A^ B^ C, D, a graft kas been placed. The s^^fi ^^ ^ failed, and consequently a shoot, e, is allowed to ascend ; so- that it may be budded the autumn following th£ Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that
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