. 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. 628 NOTES OF A HORTICULTURAL TOUR. den in Northern France, lie was so good as to design one specially for me, and I have much pleasure in giving it here. Sceaux.—In the same neighbourhood are nurseries be- longing to M. Croux, and a very good school of fruit culture apart from the large home nursery. It is nearly two acres and a half in extent, and established about six years. Many of the trees are trained into very curious fo
. 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. 628 NOTES OF A HORTICULTURAL TOUR. den in Northern France, lie was so good as to design one specially for me, and I have much pleasure in giving it here. Sceaux.—In the same neighbourhood are nurseries be- longing to M. Croux, and a very good school of fruit culture apart from the large home nursery. It is nearly two acres and a half in extent, and established about six years. Many of the trees are trained into very curious forms. The cordons here have grown too strongly, and every second stem is severed. They had of course been previously firmly grafted one to the other. Cydonia sinensis against walls has fruit a foot long in favourable seasons, but is simply a curiosity. Several kinds of Ribes, including the goose- berry, are grafted on the red currant, and there are various other curiosities. The remarkable-looking specimen of training seen in the preceding illustration was shown by M. Croux at the Paris Exposition of 1867, and there much admired. The plant nurseries of MM. Thibaut and Keteleer in the same neighbourhood are well worth seeing. Chatillon, Fontenay aux Roses.—Visitors to Bourg- la-Reine or Sceaux may on the same day conveniently visit the garden of M. Chardon in this village. The owner is an amateur, and has a most interesting little garden of fruit trees. In addi- tion to the common and well-known forms, he has many specimens trained over walks and bowers, and altogether the garden is well worth a call from anybody visiting Paris who wishes to see what may be done with fruit trees by an amateur in his spare hours. Suisnes (Brie-Comte-Robert).—The nursery of M. Cochet here is an inte- resting one for the fruit-grower, and the owner is a very popular horticulturist. Apples, on the horizontal cordon system, are planted here in large numbers, Fig. Trellis over walk covered
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