50 The Fruit and Kitchen Gardens, near Paris. 



the Journal of the London Horticultural Society for 1837, 

 Vol. II. p. 195. 



It is almost unnecessary for us to say, that Mr. Thompson's 

 article is by far the most valuable, that has appeared in 

 the Society's Journal ; and we propose to make full extracts 

 of such parts of it, as can be applied to our own practice of 

 gardening. His remarks are the result of actual observation 

 of some of the best examples of Horticultural science in 

 France ; and are worth a volume of mere theory and general 

 views, which form the basis of much that is now written upon 

 the subject. The French gardeners understand the art of 

 budding, grafting, pruning and training, thoroughly, and the 

 study of their methods of practice, is important to all who 

 are engaged in the cultivation of fruit trees, or who are de- 

 sirous of possessing the symmetrically formed specimens, of 

 which such accurate copies are figured in the French Treatises 

 upon the subject. 



Mr. Thompson went from London to Southampton, on the 

 27th of February, and sailed the same evening for Havre, 

 where he arrived the next morning. Here there was but lit- 

 tle to see : the weather was quite cold, clear and frosty, with 

 keen North East wind. On the 1st of March he went from 

 Havre to Rouen, by diligence. Here he visited the Botanic 

 Garden, which occupies upwards of twenty acres, and which 

 has been under the direction of M, Du Breuil, Senior, for forty 

 years. The arboricultural and fruit tree department is superin- 

 tended by his son, M. A. Du Breuil, Professor of Agriculture, 

 Arboriculture, «fcc. Lectures are given by Prof. Du Breuil, 

 on budding, grafting, pruning, training, &c., and, in short, up- 

 on every thing connected with the management of fruit trees. 

 There arc specimens of trees to illustrate both good and bad 

 practice in these matters. The trees are neatly pruned and 

 trained, and exhibit almost perfect examples of the various 

 modes of training, figured in Prof. Du Breuil's Cours Ele- 

 mentaire Thiorique et Pratique, d' Arboriculture. 



Pkof. Du Breuil's Mode of training Peach Trees. 



<' Professor Du Breuil has commenced the training of some 

 trees, in which two main branches arc laid ofi" according to 



