432 THE IMPERIAL FRUIT AND FORCING GARDENS. 



about nine feet higli ; Beurre Diel, and Louise Bonne 

 d'Avranches. 



The Peach is well-grown and trained in some parts of the 

 garden,, a form with five main branches being adopted with 

 success. It is analogous to the form used for the pear in 

 the same garden^ and is very readily made. 



In addition to the trellises above described^ the most re- 

 markable feature of this garden is the presence of a vast 

 number of horizontal cordon Apple trees^ both in single 

 lines and in superimposed ones of two or three stages^ all 

 on galvanized wire. The trees are on the Paradise stock, 

 and nearly always confined to a single stem. These trees 



Fig 247. 



Border of Superimposed Cordons at Versailles. 



bore an enormous crop during the year 1868_, but the fine 

 apples were nearly all destroyed by the worm. At the end 

 of September, the display of fruit was quite remark- 

 able, although much had fallen before that period, and the 

 year had been too hot for the perfect development of the 

 Apple. One border devoted to cordons is 300 metres 

 (984 feet) long, and altogether there is 4000 metres of 

 cordon apples in the garden. As the greater portion of this 

 length is composed of two and three lines of wires placed at 

 distances of a foot one above the other, there is really quite 

 8000 metres, or more than five miles of horizontal (or 

 French) cordon Apple trees on the true Paradise stock, and 



