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year, are to be found in every good establishment, wbetber for 

 Peach, Grrape, or other wall-fruit culture. The Easter Beurre may 

 be seen here double- worked on the Cure. The Cure is first grafted 

 on the Quince and allowed to form five vertical branches 

 before it is budded. The Easter Beurre is found to do - ^ 

 best when double-grafted, though the trees - ^siti^lf^ 

 directly on the Quince and Pear seem to do 

 well. The bare parts of the stems of 

 Iruit-trecs in this garden are m 

 many cases protected from 

 injury from a stron 

 sun by being 

 ncatJ J co- 

 vered 



WALL OF PEACH-TREES IN THE POTAGERIE AT VERSAILLES. 



E7igraved froiK a. photograph taken, in April iZjj by Jules Lemercier. SJtowittg the trees when in 

 flower and he/ore the youtjff shoots- begin to cover the surface between the erect branches. IJie trees 

 are protected from frost during the flowering season by straw mats temporarily fixed on the top 

 of the wall. These trees, having vertical shoots, are quickly and easily formed. The wall is 



perfectly covered with the trees as shown in the engraving, in which no alteration from the 

 photograph whatever has been made. — These Peach-trees are trained in the Uform with vertical 

 branches, and are about seventeen years old. TJte sorts are the Grosse Migjionne, Madeleine 

 Rouge de Courtoy, Belle Beansse. The wall is about thirteen feet high, atzd faces the west. The 

 trees took only six years to cover th£ wall. Each tree produced from 150 to 200 Peaches ivJien in 



full bearing, but after this figure had been reached tJie yield was reduced to 150, or even 120, tlui 



fruit becoming better in quality as they became less nmnerous. 



