. 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. Chap. XX.] TEOYBS. 349 dry, the tendency to over-vigour would be repressed, and the Doucin prove a desirable stock. How fortunate it is that stocks which possess such admirable qualities are known and easily procured! Suppose the soil to be rich, deep loam, wet, cold, or stiff. By using the French Paradise, we obtain large and beautiful fruit. Plant the same on a very poor, dry, hungry, or calcareous soi
. 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. Chap. XX.] TEOYBS. 349 dry, the tendency to over-vigour would be repressed, and the Doucin prove a desirable stock. How fortunate it is that stocks which possess such admirable qualities are known and easily procured! Suppose the soil to be rich, deep loam, wet, cold, or stiff. By using the French Paradise, we obtain large and beautiful fruit. Plant the same on a very poor, dry, hungry, or calcareous soil, and it is almost useless. Then we have the Doucin, which suits poor soil to perfection, to fall back upon, and thus good results may be produced on soils of very diverse and even very bad qualities. Here, as in every garden, the cultivator considers that cordons " are good, and take up little ; Of course, in a large public nursery like this, little lines of trees under the eye of numerous daily visitors, who may at times buy such of them as they fancy, cannot be exhibited in the perfect state in which they are in private gardens; besides, a number of kinds are planted, and not those known to be best worth growing, and yet suflSicient proof of the excellence of the system was here afforded. There was a good crop of Pear, Beurre Clairgeau, on a hedge formed of that variety. Several similar hedges are formed beside it, and arranged rather closely together, so that plants may be placed between them for the sake of shade. As clipped hedges of Arbor vitae are frequently employed in France for giving shade to plants in summer, it need scarcely be remarked that the substitution of hedges of good varieties of Pears would be an improvement. The same may be said of many hedges and. Pear-tree •with the branches trained in Hnes exactly above each other^ and all the points united by Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may
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