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France, he designed one specially for me, which is given in this 

 chapter. 



SoBAxrx. — In the same neighbourhood are nurseries belonging to 

 M. Croux, and a very good school of fruit-culture apart from the 

 large home-nursery. Many of the trees are trained into very 

 curious forms. The cordons here have grown too strongly, and 

 every second stem is severed. They had of course 

 been previously firmly grafted one to the other. 

 Cydonia sinensis against walls has fruit a foot long 

 in favourable seasons, but is simply a curiosity. 

 Several kinds of Eibes, including the Gooseberry, 

 are grafted on the Eed Currant. The remarkable 

 specimen of training figured opposite was shown by 

 M. Croux at the Paris Exposition of 1867, and was 



Pear-tree uuitk /lorizontal branches, supported by slender galvanised 

 wires stretcltedfrom a stake at back of the tree to stones in the^ound. 



Mode of support- 

 ing stake for trees 

 trained as shown 

 in the preceding 

 Ji^Tire, 



much admired. The plant-nurseries of MM. Thibaut and 

 Keteleer near here are well worth visiting. 



Chatillon, Fontenay aux Eoses. — Visitors to Bourg-la-Eeine 

 or Sceaux may on the same day conveniently visit the garden of 

 M. Chardon in this village. The owner is an amateur, and has a 

 most interesting little garden of fruit-trees. In addition to the 

 common and well-known forms, he has many specimens trained 



