THE PEACH GARDENS OF MONTREUIL. 441 



disbudding, covering bare spaces on the stem, &c., scattered 

 throughout this chapter, fully explain the regular and close- 

 pruning French system — any garden wall with a Peach tree 

 will illustrate our own. 



Fig. 257 shows a shoot that on its first pruning was cutback to 

 four or five inches^ bore two good fruit, and furnished four shoots . 



