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



corresponding cnt being made in a scion or in the stem of a young 

 plant, both of which methods are here shown. The grafting is 

 performed as soon as the sap begins to move in spring, and the 

 grafts are tied and covered with grafting-wax (see illustration). 



A particularly noticeable feature in the cultivation is that the 

 young Yines are as a rule planted at a considerable distance from 

 the wall — say a little more than three feet, and the stem laid 

 into the ground to near the base of the wall. Sometimes the 

 stem is allowed to rise some distance from the wall, and in the 

 following year when it has grown a little it is again lowered and 



Shade to frolect the Grape-thintiers from strovg 



Frame for carrying small baskets 

 Jilledwith Grapes from the walls 

 to the store-rooms : four feet 

 high at hack, thirty-one inches 

 ivide, and ten and a half inches 

 deep. 



taken to the wall. This method, is obviously pursued to secure a 

 number of vigorous roots spread over a large surface. Where the 

 ground is stony and poor it is probably a good plan. 



As regards the forcing of Grapes at Thomery, there is little 

 to note of any importance to the British Grape-grower, who is 

 certainly in advance of all others as regards the indoor-culture 

 of this old and ever-popular fruit. Nevertheless, M. Eose- 

 Charmeux's garden exhibits such an advance on the ordinary 

 style of forcing Grapes around Paris that it deserves a few words. 

 " The walls of the pits are of brick ; the highest, towards the 

 north, measures about five feet in height ; the front wall being 



