Chap. XXI.] THE PEACH-aARDENS OP MONTRBUIL. 



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Peach-tree will suffice to show the difference between our system 



and the regular and close-pruning under theirs. A principal aim 



with them is at securing straight, well-formed, well-furnished, and 



equi-distant branches, 



and always to spur in the 



shoots rather closely in 



spring. 



The garden of M. Che- 

 vallier at Montreuil dis- 

 plays examples of culti- 

 vation not anywhere 

 surpassed. The first im- 

 pression is good, for 

 the outer side of the 

 walls is covered with 

 admirable specimens of 

 Peach-trees, the narrow 

 strip forming the border 

 in which they are 

 planted being cut off 

 from the roadside by a 

 fragile fence covered with 

 Vines. This fashion of 

 utilising the outer as 

 well as the inner sides of 

 walls deserves adoption 

 by all interested in wall- 

 fruit culture. There is no 

 aspect whatever of a wall 

 that may not be used to 

 great advantage. Over- 

 head is a permanent 

 coping of plaster, and 

 immediately beneath it, 

 and at intervals of three 

 or four feet, the spokes 

 of old wheels project 



eighteen inches ; on these are placed the temporary copings of 

 boards or mats in spring in this very paradisaical climate. In the 



