The Fruit and Kitchen Gardens, near Paris. 57 



tlie respective diameters of the vase intended to be imitated, 

 the desired form will ultimately be produced. The head of 

 the tree will be completely balanced ; and the branches will 

 be more nearly equidistant, than they could be by an^^ other 

 mode of training as a standard. I should prefer wooden 

 hoops to iron ones. If weak, or if two or more pieces must 

 be employed for the hoop, its circular form may be preserved 

 by two small rods, secured diametrically across it." 



The Collection of Fruits in the Garden of the Luxembourg. 



Mr. Thompson has added the following account of the cel- 

 brated collection of fruit trees, in this garden : — 



"It may be interesting to mention, that, in the Gardens of 

 the Luxembourg, and Jardin des Plantes, the best collection 

 of fruit trees in France, thatof theChartreux, was preserved ; 

 and also that, from these gardens, the sorts were obtained by 

 the Society, when the collection was forming for the garden 

 at Chiswick. This was the best source whence the identical 

 varieties described by the celebrated Duhamel, could be ob- 

 tained, as appears by a communication from M. Thouin, ap- 

 pended to a list of grafts, sent to the Society in 1S20, and of 

 which the following is a translation : — 



" ' Various causes having prevented my worthy colleague, 

 M. Bosc, from taking off the grafts requested for the Horti- 

 cultural Society of London, from the nursery of the Luxem- 

 bourg, he begged of me to make the collection. This I under- 

 took with the greatest pleasure, as, in obliging my friend, I 

 may also render a useful service to an honorable body to 

 which I am proud to belong. 



" ' The Society maybe assured, that the names of the grafts 

 precisely correspond with the varieties described by Duhamel 

 {Traite des Arbres Fruitiers, Paris, 176S). The following are 

 the means which were employed, by which we are able to 

 accomplish so important an object. 



" 'In 1793, when the question was agitated of suppressing 

 the monasteries, and placing their property at the disposal of 

 the State, foreseeing the destruction of the garden of the Char- 

 treux at Paris, and anxious to preserve to horticulture the 

 originals on which Duhamel had established his nomencla- 



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