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method in the public garden at Chartres must have exhausted the 

 patience of the cultivator, for their shoots had started right away 

 from the wall, and grown as much as eighteen inches long ! 



"This," said I, "will never do for England." " Nor for 

 France !" added an eminent Parisian fruit grower. The only 



Fig. s8. 



chance of success with the peach as a cordon is by laying in the 

 side shoots regularly. Since the above was written a report on 

 Grin's method has been presented to the Imperial Horticultural 

 Society of France, and in this also a very unfavourable report of 

 the system is given. 



Peach Growing at Montkeuil. — The limits of this book 

 prevent me from fully describing the accurate and often beautiful 

 way in which the French train the peach, but I hope to do so at a 

 future day. Meantime there are one or two points that must not 

 be passed over. The finest supplies of peaches for the Paris market 

 do not come, as perhaps many would suppose, from the sunny south 

 or the balmy west, but from within a few miles of Paris, where 

 the peach has to be grown on walls furnished with good copings, 

 and receive in every way careful protection and culture. Ap- 

 proaching Montreuil the country is seen covered with good crops 

 of vegetables and fruit to the tops of the pretty low hills in 



