. The parks, promenades, & gardens of Paris, described and considered in relation to the wants of our own cities, and the public and private gardens. Gardens; Parks. 456 THE PEACH GARDENS OF MONTREUIL. thick, forming a strong and presentable wall. The blocks are sold at sixty francs per hundred. The walls are about nine feet high, and have a coping of plaster six inches wide. Plaster is very cheap in the neigh- bourhood, being dug up in quarries quite near to the gardens, and thus it is easy to form a neat and thin projection from the ridge of plaster which forms the top of the wall, by pl
. The parks, promenades, & gardens of Paris, described and considered in relation to the wants of our own cities, and the public and private gardens. Gardens; Parks. 456 THE PEACH GARDENS OF MONTREUIL. thick, forming a strong and presentable wall. The blocks are sold at sixty francs per hundred. The walls are about nine feet high, and have a coping of plaster six inches wide. Plaster is very cheap in the neigh- bourhood, being dug up in quarries quite near to the gardens, and thus it is easy to form a neat and thin projection from the ridge of plaster which forms the top of the wall, by placing boards underneath till the coping sets. This pro- tection is more necessary at the west and south than at the east, the cold rains being more feared than frost, and more difficult to guard against; for while a narrow coping will Fio. Grafting by approach to furnish hare spaces on the main branches of the Peach Tree. The second spring after grafting, when the Graft has firmly united, the shoot D is cut at C, and B forms a 'well-placed shoot. save the trees from frost, it is not so effective against driving cold rains. A finer crop could not be desired than was visible everywhere here on the day of my visit, 5th July, 1868. It is particularly noticeable that, no matter what form of tree is adopted, all the fruiting branches are higher at the apex than the base, instead of pursuing the horizontal line, as is the case with us. Perhaps to the passing visitor some of the trees in their full summer dress might appear to have their branches horizontally placed ; but even in cases where there is most room for the. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Robinson, W. (William), 1838-1935. London, J. Murray
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