92 THE MODERN PEACH PRUNER. 



is stated that M. Grin, being convinced of the 

 many disadvantages resulting from the old system 

 of long pruning, applied himself for a lifetime to 

 work out a newer and more profitable way, and 

 finished by obtaining a complete success. The 

 shoots, he says, being so short, the branches may 

 be double in number, and each of the closely- 

 pinched-in shoots bears at least as many Peaches 

 as the coursonnes de Montreuil. Professor Gressent 

 then adds, that the complete success which attended 

 M. Grin's labours, caused him much envy and 

 resistance in his native country, but that having, 

 like M. Dubreuil, visited Chartres, he was so con- 

 vinced of the advantages of the new style, that he 

 has ever since adopted it. In his work of 1863 

 he describes it, and says that he has followed it on 

 a very large scale, and introduced some important 

 modifications, which, being similar to some tried 

 in my own garden, shall be noticed presently. 



M. Grin has laboured under some disadvantage 

 in having his ideas first presented to the world in 

 the works of others. Though fairly enough de- 

 scribed, the actual experience gained is not 

 represented, nor his latest ideas, and it is with a 

 certain pleasure that I am able to state, that these 

 lines are the only authorised exposition of the 

 whole system in its latest development, and that 

 by them alone the originator wishes English 



