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THE PARKS AND GARDENS OF PARIS. [Chap. XX. 



Paris. He could grow some of them in the open, but they would 

 be uncertain and worthless ; and he gives an instance — Beurre 

 Kance, which is excellent against walls. The collection of Winter 

 Pears had only been planted a short time, and yet the crop was 

 very good, every young tree bearing as much as one could desire 

 to see upon it. These Pear-trees were destined finally to assume 

 the form known as the Palmetto Verrier ; but the branches were 

 being trained diagonally, so that they might be furnished and 

 formed with less trouble and in a shorter time, the sap rising 

 much more freely and naturally in young branches that ascend 

 obliquely than when they run in an exactly horizontal direction. 

 Beurre Diel is also planted against walls here — not that it may 



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Peach-tree [Catidelabnnn] with the vertical branches in the U form, instead of ascending 

 directly from the jnoiher-braach as ifi opposite illustration. 



not be grown in the open, but its flowers are very liable to be 

 injured by frost in spring, and therefore it is placed on a wall to 

 secure a crop. 



This garden is very instructive, as showing the perfect control 

 under which the energies of the trees are directed to a useful end 

 by the skilful cultivator. Though a nursery-garden where the 

 more promising young trees are often sold, there are nevertheless 

 beautiful specimens of trees in it — the Candelabrum Peach-tree 

 for example. Illustrations of such trees having usually shown the 

 tree when bare of leaves and fruit, it seemed desirable that the 

 public should see some when in full bearing. The fine example of 

 a Peach-tree represented oj)j)osite has been drawn and engraved 

 exactly after a photograph taken when the fruit was approaching 



