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Aprit 4, 1857.] THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE, 233 
JOTTINGS MADE he ah a JOURNEY TO 
PA —No. 
Tae cultivation of = is ch tree Fall an object 
of raj 
I determined to pay a visit to 
g 
wn at Montreuil. Thither I therefore went, 
having an introduction co Monsieur Alexis ey a the 
chief cultivator. The m g was ushered n b 
the full force of his rays. The village 
of of Montreuil lies almost hidden in the valley neen and 
one here pir aa posal have entered a new BER rld. 
ies 45 = res of ground, which i 
to divert the sap so Me it might be equally | The plastered walis have the advantage of being mor 
distributed all over the tree. They therefore laid off | easily eng ha free from i by washing them over, 
ain branches of an ets of about 4 li | It I Bite k itted to mention the nursery of M. 
r om th other branch er | er i “ a Age erie i ute rie es 
diverging from the upper and unde of these | This I visited, an 
under sides nsive assortment of 
principals. Butit was found that the branches which | Pine App reg Musa ‘Cendant: some "‘Cantdilieg whe 
an 
w 
side, becoming themselves too gross and rampant, and| I Et E a forme r paper alluded to the shop of M. 
leaving the under ones much too weak, their diminished Joret. I will pa state that he is the Lewis Solomons 
energy often ending in death. This was the of Paris, E he A restate of all Varde is super-excel- 
with the trees which were trained à la Montreuil i in “the lent in the d vegetable departmen I saw 
a | garden of the Horticultural Society at Chiswick some nothing at d alls t his display in pm other place. 
t h the method was a enry Bailey. 
at time 
ered to be the most perfect then extant; but M. _ 
Lepére has now much improved upon it by allowing the 
nolien several years a he imh ienee OF VENTILATION SOLVED, 
e upper ones, I say several, for the most vertical are| IN assuming so pretentious a a for this paper I do 
i no 
' ose who c 
e | information may refer to the Journal of the Horticul- | a sufficiency of fresh air to any structu ure, garden or 
tural ap i where the whole subject is fully explained | domestic, but we have not hitherto done so in a simple, 
by my friend Mr. Thompson, in his usually accurate | effectual, and econom mens, tor gad renewing 
the air, at the same “pen not w: hea 
mg 
n be no doubt that where a person’s atten-| In unfolding the plan of mne fer I propose, I 
tion is pabr r upon the perfection of an individual | shall simply describe preh I have in use, asa principle 
tance white walls enai with plaster) are ” built to the object, mse Fas a must be accomplished with more | correct in theory sometimes does not suit in practice, 
ght of 8 or 10 feet, and all th re mostly | complete han where (as is the case with the | and the ct anions ep Pov nee ff Gor We 4i 18 by loser 
covered with cluding some Cherries. agaa of oa tha ‘guna has to be divided | for his pains—at lea ney if n The 
s a brown, calcareous loam, resting (as I sa amongst so various things. This is ae to which this a is s applied i is á Viney: 38 feet 
an open pit) upon a limestone rock o great distance cwd borne pst in {y gardening by the Peach trees, | by 14 feet, a lean-to facing the south. is is mainly 
t his ensu inage, one | their Grapes, and their eee trees, of which they | heated by a large flue, if I thay s0 n. it, 18 feet by 
of the most important principles in the art of gro make each a specialité. e this also exemplified | 3} feet, the top of which is covered with fire-clay pipes 
Peaches ; or, indeed, any t arge | in ma country by the eie aie Fea pea in which our |4 inches diameter, 3} feet long, through which the 
heaps of sweepings of the streets s were | Myatts grow Rhubarb and Strawberries, and in the | external air enters the house, and is thus heated as it 
lying in the lanes to be used as surface dressings, or to | various come age of the ETRA ME of flowers, fruits, | comes in, A flap over the mouth of these pipes of thin 
nd commixed with = hat poor | and vegetables for the market. a therefore a gre eat | cloth prevents back draught in stormy wea 
soil. The walls on which = trees a advantage to a gardener to vis sgh axa: d be | Having thus furnished a constant supply of fresh war.m 
projecting eave of thatch, which i is Tain still | enabled to select the peat aah of their practice for | air to the house, the next t ing is to remove it when 
wider during the diviise of spring frosts, thereby adoption ; and it must be remembered that eli all | used. This, no doubt, can readily be done in t 
showing mportance value of such protections, | may not be excellence, still a vast seni, is learnt from | nary way by ventilators at the highest part of the back 
I could not le: that they o : ane the co contemplation of failures. Frs h gardening is | wall, and there can be as little doubt that a great part 
sad and fatal visitations. There © question | worth seeing for the cloche manag fata their out-door of the San goes off thus, an is wasted on the eeur 
th 
with me but that all our various modes of protection 
(this excepted) do often inflict more i injury than they 
good, and this not that they are bad in aenea 
but the gardener has but too Gomi no, diaenotionse ary 
wer to up or pex Py 
Vicissitudinous, that supposing an Aprico to be 
covered from a frost of 10° at night oe is following 
the canva 
fact 
that, or with greater 
I was glad to dit ae roan gardeners generally 
e advantage of projecting copings, of 
: A ’ ith 
The walls are built from 8 to 10 fee 
k t in height, and 
7 with thick layer of plaster and whitewash. 
ones are not fastened to a wooden trellis as is 
poek s The Almond seems to be 
mostly of thar ‘Mina preference is given ; they are here 
i 
$ 
Aera with the egitean to which 
ned ; they seemed vk erek e been 
g 
feari 
i 
a 
Be 
Eu 
rier 
i 
ère has much improved upon the 
Montreuil t training. I have no doubt! me 
Feaders are familiar with ve pes i 
ton of those 
as 
a 
pris 
rock. 
sight for the ers, of on Peach, as no 
Elat wi success. 
ee their Paris mne aK y er but not we for | air. The plan I have adopted is to take the 
= = -o tbe Vi : s 
their admirable culture of Asparagus and management pes towards the smoke chimney at the back of the 
f the Peach tree. ouse. Around the smoke chimney another is built of 
cannot forbear from introducing before I finish a single tier of brick a about 4 inches apart > 
these papers a specimen of the very ingenious training | and inclosing it, as it were, in a case 4 inches wide; 
of M. Lepére, called the Napoleon Peach. I am not | into this case the drain tiles open ; and by the heat of 
aware that this tree has been noticed or figured before, smoke chimney a draught is created which pumps 
ut it is ce y a piece of great ingenuity. e air out of the bottom of the house, giving thus a eon- 
he branches it will be e figure are trained | stant renewal of air with the 1 of heat. 
to form the word Napoleon, and I was assured that on The adv: of this mo ventilation are—the 
each letter of the word not less 40 hes were | constant rene air without loss of heat or 
produ year, so that it is very p as well as | rather with minimum ] t; the prevention 
rnamental, It in the ect state of health, | of back draught and entrance the adapta- 
d the branches which d the letters were covered | bility to the ci of forcing, i. e. the 
with short moderately green fruitful wood, as hard and | the forcing the more frequent renewal of the air, &c. 
ripe as ible reat care is take orten these e house thus ventilated, I may here state, never, 
ts at the winter’s pruning. Many of his trees - in the highest tem er has that stifling and o 
any 
duce him 46 dozen of Peaches in a season, and from so sive feeling which stove temperatures generally 
large a number of them as he has, the returns must be | This presume is owing to the constant ren Bhs: pe of 
| considerable in amount. e air. 
Monsieur Lepére has gery! a treatise on the cul-| Moisture in this Vieng } ja supplied by a ea aoe 
h Mr. s upwards of 2 
_ | tivation of the aah, whic hompso over ye mis. which con 
e the best extant. It is called “ Pratique Raisonée de water into steam dail which can be part pager 
Ja Taille du Pécher ; I purchased this, as I think most | use. a j ie 
persons would be induced to do, after seeing his trees, It is Mp evident 
e sun must have vast power in this place upon the | be spplied to one es fev of eating sp che ee 
care 
an as mes du not a single object to impede its rays. that th the heating pipes or 
ae we often see trees injured in this | que ere it wa me spea pa the kok as to cause it 
arn ; e Montreuillois manage to clothe the | to rise into the house ere it is withdrawn through the 
main iS m of their trees with short fruitful studs, 
the foliage of which shelters them from the sun’s rays, 
and prevents this injury to them, while it enables them 
to have their walls perfectly covered with fruit and 
drai 
Some cultivators I am aware, and men too of no 
mean eminence in horticulture, deny the rps Sey 
ventilation, except for the purpose of letting off edun- 
foliage. dani ba ý : 
The borders in which the Peach trees em 
merely trenched over with some street sweepings, Ki e air 
2 pangs in depth, below —_— there is a natural platform | or had a potty o of fermenting ma terial furnishing a con- 
ituation can therefore be more | stant ie acid Bs, independent of the 
be | atmospheric source of 3 ko phas 
‘more perfect When I first adop the mode of ventilation here 
