IN THE BOIS DE VINCENNES. 



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the Tersailles trellises could tliink of erecting such things as 

 ' these. 



In the garden devoted to teaching purposes only^ all the 

 lines which the branches of the wall trees are to pursue 



. when fully formed are indicated by small rattan canes — 

 accurately placed^ so that as the tree grows the trainer has 

 no hesitation as to the exact position each branch should 



' take^ but merely has to attach it to the rods so definitely 

 laid down. The larger trees against the walls are mostly 

 those I have figured as the Palmette Verrier. This is how- 

 ever occasionally trained " double/^ that is, it has two vertical 

 stems instead of one. Useless as well as desirable forms are 

 shown ; for instance, trees formed like a goblet, with the 

 branches crossed or ascending vertically, or sometimes like a 

 goblet reversed. These are all useless for practical purposes, 

 though they may serve to amuse an amateur ; who, however, 

 would do better to amuse himself with trees more beautiful, 

 productive, and easy to train. The way of making a hedge 

 of Pears — a hedge that when once made, and with its 

 branches crossed and intertwined, will support itself — is also 

 shown j and without doubt neat and productive screens may 

 thus be made in any garden, and the trees kept quite as 

 neatly as if supported by expensive trellising. Altogether 

 the place wiU prove an instructive one after a few years to 

 the British visitor, and particularly in convincing him of 

 the necessity of protecting our finer wall fruits ; but as a 

 fruit garden it is quite unworthy of the city. There are 

 amateurs' gardens about Paris better arranged and more 

 instructive than this, specially designed to illustrate fruit 

 culture in the capital of La Belle Prance, ^'^the orchard of 

 Europe \" Such was my impression when I visited it in 

 September, 1868. 



