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



including 45 of the best American kinds ; and so on. The Apple 

 is planted to a considerable extent as a horizontal cordon, and 

 many varieties bear abundance of fruit, some of the finer Kussian 

 kinds being gathered early in July. The following varieties 

 also bear abundantly as cordons : Joanneting, Astrakan, Winter 

 Pearmain, Archduchess Sophia, Court Pendu Plat, President 

 Dufoy, several kinds of Keinette, several kinds of Caville, Trans- 

 parent, and many others. It is scarcely necessary to enumerate 

 kinds, as nearly every first-rate variety does "well when trained in 

 this way and grafted on the true French Paradise stock, 



EouEN. — This district is so near home, and its climate so very 

 much like our own, that even those who believe the climate of 

 Northern France to be a delightful one will admit the utility 

 of noticing the culture of fruit-trees here. I first visited the 

 nursery of Mr. J. Wood, an English nurseryman, established here 

 fifty years. Speaking of fruit-growing in France and England, 

 these were his words : " For every single fruit-tree sold in 

 England there are one thousand sold in France ! Every cottager 

 with ten square yards of ground buys and plants fruit-trees. If 

 it were not so, you would not get so much French fruit in 

 England." Generally, he said, the culture of wall-fruit was 

 carelessly performed in that district, with the exception of the 

 Pear. Fine old specimens of Pears against the walls of chateaux 

 afi'orded quantities of good fruit. Alpine Strawberries are grown 

 here in considerable quantity, and preferred to the common kind. 

 By covering the ground with a little mulching to prevent evapo- 

 ration, and giving abundance of water in dry weather, they get 

 them to bear from early summer to late autumn, gathering 

 plenty of fruit all through this prolonged season. When gathered 

 fresh from the plants, and used with the usual accompaniments, 

 the best varieties of the Quatre Saisons Strawberry are certainly 

 excellent. Mr. Eoger Leigh of Barham Court has grown them 

 extensively of late years, and finds them a great success. They 

 occupy ground among the fruit-trees. On the occasion of a fete, 

 sixty quarts of this delicate fruit were gathered in his garden on 

 a single morning. Various fine kinds are grown ; some not pro- 

 ducing runners, which is a great advantage. Few things are more 

 worthy of general culture in England than these long-bearing 

 Strawberries : the climate is even more suitable for them than 



