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NOTES OF A HORTICULTURAL TOUR. 



den in Northern France, lie was so good as to design 

 one specially for me, and I have much pleasure in giving 

 it here. 



Sceaux. — In the same neighbourhood are nurseries be- 

 longing to M. Croux, and a very good school of fruit culture 

 apart from the large home nursery. It is nearly two acres 

 and a half in extent, and established about six years. 

 Many of the trees are trained into very curious forms. The 

 cordons here have grown too strongly, and every second 

 stem is severed. They had of course been previously firmly 

 grafted one to the other. Cydonia sinensis against walls 

 has fruit a foot long in favourable seasons, but is simply a 

 curiosity. Several kinds of Ribes, including the goose- 

 berry, are grafted on the red currant, and there are various 

 other curiosities. The remarkable-looking specimen of 

 training seen in the preceding illustration was shown by 

 M. Croux at the Paris Exposition of 1867, and there 

 much admired. The plant nurseries of MM. Thibaut 

 and Keteleer in the same neighbourhood are well worth 

 seeing. 



Chatillon, Fontenay aux Roses. — Visitors to Bourg- 

 la-Reine or Sceaux may on the same day 

 conveniently visit the garden of M. 

 Chardon in this village. The owner is 

 an amateur, and has a most interesting 

 little garden of fruit trees. In addi- 

 tion to the common and well-known 

 forms, he has many specimens trained 

 over walks and bowers, and altogether 

 the garden is well worth a call from 

 anybody visiting Paris who wishes to 

 see what may be done with fruit trees 

 by an amateur in his spare hours. 



Suisnes (Brie-Comte-Robert). — The 

 nursery of M. Cochet here is an inte- 

 resting one for the fruit-grower, and 

 the owner is a very popular horticulturist. Apples, on the 

 horizontal cordon system, are planted here in large numbers, 



Fig. 363. 



Trellis over walk covered 

 with Pear Trees. 



