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France, he designed one specially for ine, which is given in this 

 chapter. 



ScEAUX. — In the same neighbourhood are nurseries belonging to 

 M. Croux, and a very good school of fruit-culture apart from the 

 large home-nursery. 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 Eibes, including the Gooseberry, 

 are grafted on the Red Currant. The remarkable 

 specimen of training figured opposite was shown by 

 M. Croux at the Paris Exposition of 18G7, and was 



Pear-tree luith horizontai branclus, supported by slender galvanised 

 wires stretched from a stake at hack oftlte tree to stones in the ground. 



Mode of support- 

 ing stake for trees 

 trained as s/unun 

 in the preceding 

 figure. 



much admired. The plant-nurseries of MM. Thibaut and 

 Keteleer near here are well worth visiting. 



Chatillox, Fontenay aux Eoses. — 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 addition to the 

 common and well-known forms, he has many specimens trained 



