372 SHORT PINCHING SYSTEM APPLIED TO THE PEACH. 



for France !" added an eminent Parisian frnit grower. The 

 only chance of success with, the Peach as a cordon is by- 

 laying in the side shoots regularly. Since the above was 

 written a report on Grinds method has been presented to 

 the Imperial Horticultural Society of France^ and in this 

 also a very unfavourable account of the system is given. 

 There can be no doubt that as a system of pruning it is 

 ridiculously bad. From reading a book on Peach pruning, 

 by the Government reporter on fruit trees at the Paris Ex- 



Fia. 171. 



Kesult of pincMng the sti'pulary leaves. 



hibition, which was first published in one of our horticultural 

 journals^ it is possible that some people interested in the 

 subject may suppose that this system of M. Grin^ so highly 

 praised therein, is extensively practised and adopted instead 

 of the old way of laying in the shoots. The interests of 

 fruit culture compel me to declare that it is not practised 

 by any intelligent French fruit growers. It should by no 

 means be confounded with the true cordon system of growing 

 the Peach as it has been in the writings above alluded to. 



