. 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. 366 THE PAEKS AND GARDENS OF PARIS. [Chap. XXI. devote to Peach-growing. Peach-trees planted in this way afford the means of growing a mimber of varieties in a small compass, and of speedily obtaining a well-trained tree in full bearing. After having chosen healthy trees, eighteen months old, full of buds at the base, they are cut down to within eight inches of the graft at the time of planting. When the
. 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. 366 THE PAEKS AND GARDENS OF PARIS. [Chap. XXI. devote to Peach-growing. Peach-trees planted in this way afford the means of growing a mimber of varieties in a small compass, and of speedily obtaining a well-trained tree in full bearing. After having chosen healthy trees, eighteen months old, full of buds at the base, they are cut down to within eight inches of the graft at the time of planting. When the first leaves begin to appear, two well-placed shoots, situated about six inches above the graft, are chosen, one on each side of the stem. These are intended to form the two main branches that are afterwards to be trained in the U shape. The ends of these two branches are then turned directly upwards, care being taken that the extremities are perfectly free, so that their development may not be inter- fered with. " The space to be given in planting, when the soil is of the best kind, is about a yard to each tree, which will leave an interval of eighteen inches between each principal vertical branch, thus allowing sufficient room for nail- ing in the summer shoots. When the soil is not so favourable for Peach-growing, the trees can be planted two yards from each other and trained in the form of the double U. In this case, as in the other, the principal branches will be eighteen inches apart. Three years ago I planted on a southern aspect some Peach-trees in the form of the single U. They yield on an average one hundred Peaches each every year. The wall against which they are trained is ten feet high, and they were in full bearing the third year. " I give the preference to this form over the oblique cordon, because, the principal branches being trained in a perfectly upright position, the sap is more equally divided amongst the smaller shoots, and if a tree or two happ
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