BRUNO r. 



635 



Fig. 374. 



Peach is grown to some extent against the walls, and success- 

 fully, some of the trees looking almost as well as those at 

 Montreuil, though the walls are not so high. A large 

 portion of the wall space is devoted to oblique cordons of the 

 Easter Beurre, and these were in excellent bearing ; they had 

 been planted six years, were about twelve feet long, and bore 

 from ten to fifteen fruit each. Planted at twenty inches 

 apart, and confined to one stem, which is never cut back 

 at the point if the wood be ripe, they soon cover the wall, 

 and, the good fruit of this variety fetching a high price, a 

 quick return is afforded by the 

 trees. There can be no doubt that 

 this is the best phase of the cordon 

 system against walls, and, as the 

 same plan has been carried out on 

 all the walls of the new fruit garden 

 of the municipality of Paris in the 

 Bois de Vincennes, there must be 

 some good reasons in its favour. 

 Several small walled gardens are 

 being made in connexion with the 

 chief one of M. Nallet, and here 

 again the greater portion of the 

 wall surface is devoted to Easter 

 Beurre, the plantations being one 

 and two years old. Six years ago, 

 the first trees in the garden were 

 planted, and I doubt much if any 

 fruit garden in existence better illustrates what may be done 

 with good management in a short time. 



The practice of grafting by approach the branches of 

 the Pear trees is extensively employed here, as shown in 

 Figs. 370, 371, and 372. The figures will better explain 

 the mode of training and the aspect of the trees in the 

 garden than any description. I am much indebted to 

 M. Nallet for his kindness in sending me accurate sketches 

 of some of his most remarkable trees. 



A distinct and apparently useful form of tree I met with 

 here for the first time. It is called the crinoline form, and 



Pear Tree 

 Crinoline 

 high. 



trained in the 

 form, ten feet 



