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CnAPTEPt XX. 



Some Notes on Fruit Gardens. 





Permanent tiled coJ>ing to Peach-wall, 

 Bourg-la-Reine. 



Many French nurserymen 

 have, in addition to the ground 

 loYoted to the raising and 

 raining of young trees, a 

 |)rivate garden or "school " of 

 fruit-culture, in which various 

 trees may be seen in a de- 

 veloped state. The garden 

 established by M, F. Jamin 

 is an excellent example of 

 this class of garden, and being 

 near Paris and easily acces- 

 sible, should be visited by the stranger interested in fruit- 

 culture. The walls of stone have a coping of overlapping 

 tiles, which project about nine inches. This is, perhaps, as 

 good a coping as any in use, and its eflect is neat, much 

 more so than that of other tile copings employed here. The 

 walls are all wired closely and eflfectively with the galvanised wire 

 tightened by the raidisseur. Tlie walls with the warmest and 

 best aspects are planted with Peaches and Winter Pears, and 

 herein is an instructive lesson. 



A most experienced fruit-grower here, one who knows England, 

 gives as his experience that it is absolutely useless to attempt the 

 culture of the finer Winter Pears, the most valuable of all, away 

 from walls, and that it is necessary to place such kinds as the 

 Easter Beurre against well-coped walls with a southern exposure, 

 the soil being of the finest description and the climate that of 



