414 THE CULTURE OF THE VINE AT THOMERY. 



mucli glass and yet some wall space, for covering cottages, 

 out-offices, &c., and not in any way as a substitute for Vine 

 culture indoors. It may, nevertheless, be added tbat I 

 have never yet tasted the Chasselas de Fontainebleau or 



Royal Muscadine nearly so 

 well flavoured as when 

 grown in the open air, and 

 that all who admire this 

 grape would do well to 

 attempt its culture on warm 

 walls. The culture of the 



Fig. 228. 



Vines trained Vertically with alter- 

 Eose-Cliarmeux's System of Vertical nated spurs, wires nine inches apart 

 Training. The Vines are planted at on wail ; Vines about twenty-eight 

 sixteen inches apart. inches apart. 



Chasselas de Fontainebleau at Thomery and other places in 

 the vicinity of Paris is the best example of open air culture 

 anywhere to be found ; and this variety, more generally 

 knovm in England as the Royal Muscadine, is also far the 

 best for culture in the open air in this country. 



