♦84 HORTICULTURAL TOUR; 



that the fruit from standards is more delicious and higher 

 Savoured than that from wall trees. 



One criticism we cannot help making, — that both in Lo- 

 rianf s garden and in Mozard's, the peaeh-trees are uni- 

 formly planted too close to the base of the wall : in many of 

 the older trees, the stems may be remarked to have pressed 

 against the wall, so as to have become flattened behind ; 

 and in several places the walls have been pushed off their 

 perpendicular, by the pressure of stems and the swelling 

 of root-stocks. 



In Mozard's garden, also, the peach harvest was almost 

 past, only a few of the Maltese and Teton de Venus remaining. 

 The Bellegarde, we are told, is one of the peaches most ge- 

 nerally cultivated at Montreuil, and M. Mozard thinks 

 that it withstands the spring frosts better than most others. 

 We were led to think that this Montreuil Bellegarde is our 

 Gallande ; but Mr Macdonald has two distinct peaches 

 under these names at Dalkeith Park. Perhaps the Peche 

 noir of Montreuil is rather our Gallande ? 



There are here cultivated also, on paradise stocks, a few 

 apple-trees, of select kinds, the fruit of which is ornamental 

 in desserts. The Canadian rennet was at this time beauti- 

 ful, and very large ; one which we measured, being fourteen 

 inches in circumference. 



When we had finished our inspection of his garden, we 

 were invited by M. Mozard to enter his dwelling. Here 

 we found his wife, and some other females, busied with the 

 shelling of kidney-beans. The beans are dried, and stored 

 up in large quantities against winter, when they are sold 

 under the name of haricots blancs. One variety was 

 kept separate, under the name of mange-tout, the legume 

 baring no inner film, and the seeds being not of a kidney 

 shape, but round, though flat on one side. M. Mozard 

 now produced to us, with evident satisfaction, some honor- 



