. 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. 370 SHORT PINCHING SYSTEM APPLIED TO THE PEACH. Fig. 169. digious. As the French fruit growers say—the cultivator who pursues this method had better provide himself with chairs, and place one before each tree to accommodate the person who has to see that the pinching is done at the proper time ! The report of the commission sent to examine this method is as unfavourable to it as anything can be. I translated it with a view of
. 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. 370 SHORT PINCHING SYSTEM APPLIED TO THE PEACH. Fig. 169. digious. As the French fruit growers say—the cultivator who pursues this method had better provide himself with chairs, and place one before each tree to accommodate the person who has to see that the pinching is done at the proper time ! The report of the commission sent to examine this method is as unfavourable to it as anything can be. I translated it with a view of giving it here, but space pre- vents my doing so, and therefore I sum up its statements in a few words. " This system, which is an attempt to do away with nailing in of the shoots, presents on the whole no advantages over the one in common use, but, on the contrary, certain ; HaviDg read so much about the doings of M. Grin, I was asto- nished at the very ordinary aspect of his trees, and the by no means remarkable result attained. The individual who pays his penny to see the "blue horse captured in the Black Sea by Captain Jones of the ship Adventurer—the most ex- traordinary monster ever seen," &c, in the New Cut, and finds the blue horse to be a puny young seal, could not have been more disappointed than was I at the as- pect of the trees in this garden. For when one reads of a method as being about to supplant everything else, it is quite natural to expect that it must at all events possess some merits over the older one; but in this instance such is not the case. Of course I speak of this mode of pinching as a system. Peach Shoot of the current year I* nas one merit, however, and bearing a number of secon- may be usea incidentally with any dary shoots—bourgeons an- , . system 01 summer-pruning. It. should be remarked that M. Grin commenced by simply adopting a method of very short pinch-. Please note that these images are extracted fr
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