. Gleanings from French gardens: comprising an account of such features of French horticulture as are most worthy of adoption in British gardens. Gardening; Gardens. Peach-growing at Montreuil, 187 method in the public garden at Chartres must have exhausted the patience of the cultivator, for their shoots had started right away from the wall, and grown as much as eighteen inches long! "This," said I, "will never do for ; " Nor for France!" added an eminent Parisian fruit grower. The only. Fig. s8. chance of success with the peach as a cordon is by laying i
. Gleanings from French gardens: comprising an account of such features of French horticulture as are most worthy of adoption in British gardens. Gardening; Gardens. Peach-growing at Montreuil, 187 method in the public garden at Chartres must have exhausted the patience of the cultivator, for their shoots had started right away from the wall, and grown as much as eighteen inches long! "This," said I, "will never do for ; " Nor for France!" added an eminent Parisian fruit grower. The only. Fig. s8. chance of success with the peach as a cordon is by laying in the side shoots regularly. Since the above was written a report on Grin's method has been presented to the Imperial Horticultural Society of France, and in this also a very unfavourable report of the system is given. Peach Growing at Montkeuil.—The limits of this book prevent me from fully describing the accurate and often beautiful way in which the French train the peach, but I hope to do so at a future day. Meantime there are one or two points that must not be passed over. The finest supplies of peaches for the Paris market do not come, as perhaps many would suppose, from the sunny south or the balmy west, but from within a few miles of Paris, where the peach has to be grown on walls furnished with good copings, and receive in every way careful protection and culture. Ap- proaching Montreuil the country is seen covered with good crops of vegetables and fruit to the tops of the pretty low hills in. 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, F. Warne; New York, Scribner, Welford
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