Chap. XX.] 



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dry, the tendency to over-vigour would be repressed, and the 

 Doucin prove a desirable stock. 



How fortunate it is that stocks which possess such admirable 

 qualities are known and easily procured ! Suppose the soil 

 to be rich, deep loam, wet, cold, or stiff. By using the French 

 Paradise, we obtain large and 

 beautiful fruit. Plant the same 

 on a very poor, dry, hungry, 

 or calcareous soil, and it is 

 almost useless. Then we have 

 the Doucin, which suits poor soil 

 to perfection, to fall back upon, 

 and thus good results may be 

 produced on soils of very diverse 

 and even very bad qualities. 

 Here, as in every garden, the 

 cultivator considers that cordons 

 " are good, and take up little 

 space." Of course, in a large 

 public nursery like this, little 

 lines of trees under the eye of 

 numerous daily visitors, who may 

 at times buy such of them as they 

 fancy, cannot be exhibited in the 

 perfect state in which they are 

 in private gardens ; besides, a 

 number of kinds are planted, and 

 not those known to be best worth 

 growing, and yet suflSicient proof 

 of the excellence of the system 

 was here afforded. 



There was a good crop of Pear, 

 Beurre Clairgeau, on a hedge formed of that variety. Several similar 

 hedges are formed beside it, and arranged rather closely together, 

 so that plants may be placed between them for the sake of shade. 

 As clipped hedges of Arbor vitae are frequently employed in France 

 for giving shade to plants in summer, it need scarcely be remarked 

 that the substitution of hedges of good varieties of Pears would be 

 an improvement. The same may be said of many hedges and 



Pear-tree •with the branches trained in Hnes 

 exactly above each other ^ and all the points 

 united by grafting. 



