LIST OF PLACES OF PRACTICAL HORTICULTURE. 545 



List of places in which the more instructive features of 

 practical horticulture may be seen. 



It is so mucli better to illustrate a subject by eye-proof 

 than by any other,, that I venture to give a list of gardens 

 in which visitors to Paris may see for themselves some of 

 the things spoken of in this book. We may breakfast in 

 London in the morning and dine without inconvenience 

 in Paris the same evenings so that those wishing to examine 

 for themselves any of the subjects discussed will have little 

 difficulty in doing so. 



Fruit Culture. — M.Nallet^Brunoy^Seine-et-Marne: This 

 station is passed on the way to Fontainebleau and Lyon^ and 

 is also that at which you alight to go to the great Rose- 

 show occasionally held at Brie Comte Robert^ so that 

 numbers of English travellers have an opportunity of visiting 

 it. Nobody taking an interest in fruit-culture should pass 

 the station without seeing it. It is within an hour or so of 

 Paris^ should a special visit be paid. The garden is within 

 a few minutes of the station^ and M. Nallet is a most 

 obligiDg aod amiable amateur. — The Imperial kitchen and 

 fruit garden, or Potagerie, at Versailles (for Pear culture on 

 trellises in open quarters, winter Pear culture against walls^ 

 and horizontal cordons). — M. Chardon-Chatillon, Fontenay 

 aux Roses, a little to the south of Paris. — Rothschild, Fer- 

 rieres, Seine- et-Marne : This noble place has a fruit garden 

 which though not very extensive, is exceedingly well managed. 

 The fruit room is the best structure of the kind yet made, 

 and usually stored with a fine stock. The Grape-room, in 

 which the Grapes are preserved in bottles on the system 

 pre^dously described, is also worth seeing. 



M. Rose-Charmeux, Thomery, near Fontainebleau : This 

 garden is entirely devoted to Grape culture against walls and 

 also in houses. The village is celebrated for furnishing Paris 

 with a great quantity of its favourite Chasselas de Fontaine- 

 bleau; indeed popularly it is supposed to supply all; but this is 

 not the case, the next-mentioned place supplying a good deal, 

 though hardly known. Nearly all the ground around the village 

 is netted over with walls devoted to Grape culture. In fact it 



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