636 NOTES OF A HORTICULTURAL TOUR IN FRANCE. 



Fig. 375. 



is made by taking eigbt brancbes from tbe base of the tree, 

 and bringing them outside a circular hoop, allowing one 

 main stem to ascend erect. The branches, after gi'owing a 

 little aboye the hoop, which giyes a desirable uniformity to 



the base, ascend at regular inter- 

 yals to the top, where they are 

 neatly united to the erect shoot. 

 The figures will explain this form, 

 but the stake in Tig. 375 has been 

 made much too large by the en- 

 grayer. It should be of iron. This 

 figure is in other respects a good 

 representation of a handsome speci- 

 men in M. Nallet^'s garden. Each 

 branch being kept distinct, and the 

 tree being well opened up by this 

 system, the effect was yeiy good 

 indeed, and the crops too, con- 

 sidering that they were a failure 



Pear Tree in Crinoline form, 

 seventeen feet high and six 

 feet in diameter. 



Plan of Pear Tree, shown in Fig. 375. 



throughout Prance during the past year. A specimen of the 

 Duchesse d^Angouleme trained thus was one of the most 

 pleasing looking trees I have eyer seen. The method has more 

 advantages than would appear at first sight — the long fruit- 

 ing branches being thoroughly exposed to the sun and light 

 from bottom to top, the branches being held firm, and the 

 tree being altogether a decided improvement upon the 

 pyramid for important positions in gardens. 



