THE NEW FRUIT GARDEN OF PARIS. 



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Fig. 248. 



the plantations are being extended as often as circumstances 

 will permit. It should be observed that though the cordons 

 are often grown in lines one above the other, one plant does 

 not furnish more than 

 one line except at the 

 ends. There, however, 

 it is necessary to take 

 several branches from 

 one plant to fur- 

 nish the two or three 

 lines of wire starting 

 from the same post. 

 Here, as in many other 

 gardens superintended 

 by experienced fruit growers, this mode of Apple growing 

 is preferred to any other, but the enormous number 

 planted best speaks of the estimation in which it is held. 

 The cordons, though generally well-managed, are not quite 

 so good as I have seen them elsewhere, and apparently 

 from being too closely confined to the main stem. I have 

 always noticed them best and most satisfactory when allowed 

 to form a free and regular bush of spurs along the stem. 

 The soil is as cold, stiff, and disagreeable for fruit culture 

 as could well be devoted to that purpose. 



Section of preceding. 



The new Fruit Garden of the City of Paris in the 

 Bois de Vincennes. 



Not long since it was determined to make a new school 

 of fruit culture for Paris, and in the spring of 1868 

 the first trees were planted. Naturally there is but very 

 little to be seen as yet; but, nevertheless, a description of 

 it can scarcely fail to be of use. As to plan and arrange- 

 ment it is almost identical with that given overleaf, and 

 recommended by M. Du Breuil for the north of Prance. It 

 is situated near the Avenue Daumesnil entrance to the 

 Bois de Vincennes. The first thing remarkable about the 

 new garden is its walls ; they are of felt, supported on a rough 

 wooden framework. The felt is first nailed on frames of 



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