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THE PARKS AND GARDENS OP PARIS. [Chap. XX. 



dividing lines in gardens and nurseries everywhere. At first stakes 

 are used to support the trees, and indeed, some must be employed 

 till they have attained their perfect development; hut after- 

 wards, if properly trained, they will support each other perfectly, 

 and they may he pruned and kept to look as neatly as if supported 

 by a costly trellis. Alongside one of the main walks a young 

 specimen of a very carefully and neatly made curtain of this kind 

 may be seen. These hedges bear as freely and well as any other 

 form of Pear-tree whatever. The line of Beurre Clairgeau was 

 grafted on Quince and Pear stocks alternately. The trees on the 

 Quince were little better than dead ; those on the Pear were fine, 

 full of fruit, showing that the variety requires the Pear stock. 



In another part of the town the Normal School of the depart- 

 ment has a garden behind it for the purpose of teaching the 

 pupils fruit-culture. Here double or superimposed cordons of 

 the Lady Apple bore fruit in great abundance. The walls were 

 made of the dried stems of the common Eeed, nailed between 

 rough cheap wooden framework, the mass of stems being about 

 two inches thick. A flat board nailed along the top at about 

 seven feet from the ground, afforded about eight inches of coping. 

 The wall of the school for about four feet from the ground was 

 very neatly covered with dwarf Peach-trees which bore a fair 

 crop, and neatly covered a space such as is generally left bare. 



Fantastic iraining in forming name. 



