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the young growing branchlets of the tree, and thus keep the 

 points perfectly trained in the desired direction. On the first of 

 Novemher every year, one of the many professors of fruit-culture 

 in Paris, gives and illustrates here a lecture, which is attended 

 by from three to four hundred gardeners from various parts in 

 the neighbourhood. 



Bbunoy (Seine-et-Maene). — There is here a very remarkable 

 fruit-garden belonging to an amateur, M. Nallet — a garden which 

 will repay a visit at any time of the year. It is only a few 

 minutes' walk from Brunoy station, passed on the way to Fon- 

 tainebleau, and within an easy distance of Paris. It is an oblong 

 piece of ground, walled in and with a straight walk through the 

 centre, bordered by two lines of handsome pyramidal trees, cut 



Espaliers of Pear-trees with the bratiches grafted by approach. 



off from the walk by long horizontal cordons. Lines of tall trellis- 

 work run at right angles with the main walk, and accommo- 

 date a great variety of trees — many fanciful, and many of the 

 best and most useful forms. The owner considered that, taking 

 bad years with good, an average of ten fruit per yard run of each 

 branch of a cordon tree might be calculated upon. The cordons 

 are never protected, and, here as elsewhere, furnish numerous 

 places which would otherwise not be occupied at all. It is im- 

 possible to give the reader an idea of the variety of form to be 

 seen in the fruit-trees, therefore we will confine ourselves to the 

 most remarkable. The garden offers recreation to its amiable 

 owner, and he, while not neglecting the very best forms, also 

 amuses iimself occasionally by transforming one or more trees 



