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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 



