. 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. XXII.] CULTURE OF THE VINE AT THOMERY. 389 the straw mats, -which ought to bo taken off eyery morning and replaced in the ; Thus M. Kose-Charmeux speaks of his forced culture of the Vine. In addition to the houses here figured and alluded to, he employs a well-constructed portable lean-to house—portable because the French yet believe in the virtue of the plan of alter- nately forcing a
. 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. XXII.] CULTURE OF THE VINE AT THOMERY. 389 the straw mats, -which ought to bo taken off eyery morning and replaced in the ; Thus M. Kose-Charmeux speaks of his forced culture of the Vine. In addition to the houses here figured and alluded to, he employs a well-constructed portable lean-to house—portable because the French yet believe in the virtue of the plan of alter- nately forcing and resting their trees, a system which we have long ago proved to be worthless. ' The following is a French mode of training Vines on walls, and a very good one; the walls are trellised with split pieces of Oak which last nearly as long as the walls themselves. The Vines are planted against them about six feet apart, as there are three tiers of Vines, or cordons as they may be termed. The distance for each Vine to run horizontally is something like nine feet or so; the horizontal shoots are tied to the first bar or lath, and the rest of the space is left for the summer-shoots and fruits, only one bunch of Grapes being left on each pair of shoots. The shoot that fruits this year does not bear fruit next, and so on throughout. It is a simple and quick way of covering a wall, and one which in the southern part of England might be advan- tageously French mode of imining Vines on open Wall. 2 D. 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, Macmillan and co.
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