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prevent all tendency of the brancli to shoot vigorously from 

 any point near the base^ as is sometimes the case with the 

 branches when placed exactly in the horizontal position. 

 Apart from this^ the growing point of each main branch is 

 allowed to push freely a little upward s^ so as to encourage the 

 sap to flow regularly through the branch, and not halt at any 

 one point to the detriment of all. Grafting by approach is 

 practised to cover naked branches. Four to five hundred 

 fruit are gathered from the best trees, or an average of about 

 ten fruit per metre of fruiting branch. Cheap and rather 

 thin planks, about twenty inches wide, are preferred for the 

 temporary coping ; walls twelve feet high would be bene- 

 fited by a few inches more. Cor- 

 dons of Calville Blanc and other ^^<^- ^58. 

 fine Apples are planted plentifully 

 on the spaces between the trees ; 

 no matter how well the walls 

 are covered, there is always space 

 for cordon trees between them, in 

 consequence of the branches having 

 a very gradual upward inclination. 

 M. Chevallier's garden is one of 

 the most interesting and instructive 

 I have ever seen, and the trees in 



it are models of beauty and of Mode of preserving the Lower 

 „ , , . . Part of the Stems from the 



perfect trammg. heat of the Sun. 



We will next visit the garden of 



M. Lepere. It is large, and consists simply of a series of oblong 



spaces which are surrounded by Peach walls, both walls and 



ground being well covered and cropped — ^neat, clean, and 



in all respects satisfactory. The Peach is the favourite 



subject, but neat pyramidal and cordon Pear and Apple 



trees are also to be seen, and the place is altogether 



many degrees above the ordinary type of French fruit or 



kitchen gardens. There are two entrances to M. Lepere^s 



establishment, and it may not be amiss to say that the finer 



examples of cultivation are those nearest the one approached 



by a narrow lane-like road^ which is margined on each side 



by Peach walls. Outside the entrance of the walls there 



