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



with the branches brought out from the main stem in six lines, 

 the branches in each line being of course placed exactly one above 

 the other. Trees are trained thus, so that the air and light may 

 fully benefit all parts of them. The character of a pretty bower 

 was imparted to the space between every two wings of the tree by 

 simply carrying an arched branch from wing to wing overhead. 



There is here a very well-furnished Peach-wall, made of common 

 earth in the same way as by M. Morel at Yaise-Lyon, except that 

 the base of the wall was made of rough stones instead of solid 

 stone. The coping is of tiles, not sloping down on both sides of 

 the wall, but running clean from front to back, the higher side 

 being reserved for the most important crop. Beneath this coping 

 wooden supports project about twenty inches from the wall, to 

 accommodate a neat straw mat in spring. Espaliers are here 

 occasionally protected with these straw mats by simply projecting 

 from the main support of the espalier two little stays of iron 

 or wood, which carry a rude and cheap span of framework, on 

 which the mats are so placed in spring that the wind cannot blow 

 them off. 



There is a School of Dendrology here, with the trees planted 

 in their natural orders, and generally speaking good facilities for 

 teaching young men with a taste for rural pursuits. 



Dijon. — The home-nursery of Leconte here is well kept and 

 instructive. It is an oblong piece of ground, about four acres in 

 extent, and walled in on every side, the walls being coped with 

 overlapping tiles. All the space on both sides of the walls was 

 planted with oblique cordon Pear-trees, trained on single gal- 

 vanised wires, attached to two strong nails in the walls. A wall 

 about fifteen feet high was nearly covered with oblique cordon 

 Pears, and as they had so much room to rise, the position seemed 

 particularly suited to them. Near at hand they were grown to 

 the same height by projecting a trellis above the garden-wall, 

 so as to form a very high screen of cordon Pears above it. This 

 was done by erecting strong uprights of iron to the required 

 height above the wall, and then running galvanised wires from 

 the bottom of the wall to a strong horizontal wire or rod passing 

 from upright to upright at the top. Looking along the walks, 

 cordon Apples could be seen stretching without interruption 

 from one end of the garden to the other, the efiect being very 



