. 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.] BEUNOY. 337 of the wall-space is devoted to oUique cordons of the Easter Beurre, and these were in excellent bearing; they had been planted six years, were about twelve feet long, and bore from ten to fifteen fruit each. Planted twenty inches apart, and confined to one stem, which is never cut back at the point if the wood be ripe, they soon cover the wall, and as the good fruit of this variet
. 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.] BEUNOY. 337 of the wall-space is devoted to oUique cordons of the Easter Beurre, and these were in excellent bearing; they had been planted six years, were about twelve feet long, and bore from ten to fifteen fruit each. Planted twenty inches apart, and confined to one stem, which is never cut back at the point if the wood be ripe, they soon cover the wall, and as the good fruit of this variety commands a high price, a quick return is afforded. In several small walled gardens made in connection with the chief one of M. Nallet, the greater portion of the wall-surface is devoted to Easter Beurre. The practice of grafting by approach the branches of the Pear- trees is extensively employed here. The figures will better explain the mode of training and the aspect of the trees in the garden than any description. I am much indebted to M. Nallet for his kindness in sending me accurate sketches of some of his most remarkable trees. A distinct and apparently useful form of tree I met with here for the first time. It is called the balloon form, and is made by taking eight branches from the base of the tree, and bringing them outside a circular hoop, allowing one main stem to ascend erect. The branches, after grow- ing a little above the hoop, which gives a desirable uniformity to the base, ascend at regular intervals to the top, where they are neatly united to the erect shoot. The figures will explain this form, but the stake has been made much too large by the engraver. It should be of iron. This figure is in other respects a good representation of a handsome specimen in M. Nallet's garden. Each branch being kept distinct, and the tree being well opened up by this system, the result was very good. A specimen of the Duchesse d'Angouleme trained thus was one of the handsomest-l
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