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THE PEACH GARDENS OF MONTKEUIL. 



How these are to be dealt with is explained in the illustration^ 

 and all other important operations in those that follow it. 



The garden of M. Chevallier is less extensive than that 

 of the better known M. Lepere, but certainly displays 

 examples of cultivation not anywhere to be surpassed ; and 

 no person interested in fruit-growing should visit the town 

 without seeing it. The first impression is very good, for the 

 outer side of the walls is covered with admirable specimens 

 of Peach trees, the narrow strip forming the border in which 



Fig. 254. Fig. 255. 



Leaf of Peach Tree attacked by the Peach Shoot attacked by 



Cloque, a disease caused by sudden Cloque. 

 cold at the commencement of 

 vegetation. 



they are planted being cut off from the road-side by a 

 fragile fence covered with vines. To merely walk along this 

 wall, without entering the garden at all, would repay the 

 visitor, so perfect are the trees in health, bearing, and 

 training. Overhead is a permanent coping of plaster, and 

 immediately beneath it, and at intervals of three or four feet, 

 the spokes of old wheels project eighteen inches; on these 

 are placed the temporary copings of boards or mats in spring 

 in this very paradisiacal climate. In the garden the same 



