546 LIST OF PLACES IN WHICH THE MORE INSTRUCTIVE 



is as mucli devoted to the production of Grapes as Mon^ 

 treuil is to Peaches. — MM. Crapote et Cirjean^ Conflans, 

 St. Honorine : A very interesting establishment for vine- 

 culture in the open air. — M. Lepere^ Montreuil : This is 

 the well known Peach-grower^ and it need scarcely be 

 remarked his garden is worth seeing at all seasons. — M. 

 Chevallier, Boulevard de THotel de Ville^ at Montreuil : 

 This place is by no means so well known as M. Lepere^s, 

 but very well worth seeing. It is not nearly so large 

 or so long established as the garden of M. Lepere^ but 

 it would be difficult to find more perfectly beautiful wall 

 trees than are here to be seen. The ground all round this 

 village is devoted to Peach culture- — M. Bac-Ivry^ near 

 Yitry : This is the garden of an amateur containing very 

 nice examples of the horizontal cordons, pyramids, and trel- 

 lised trees. It is but a few miles from Paris, the omnibus pass- 

 ing the door. — Of amateurs successfully cultivating fruit trees 

 in small gardens in Paris, M. Laclaverie, Avenue du Roule, 

 and M. Mattifat of Neuilly, may be mentioned. 



Of nurseries near Paris where fruit culture is practised to 

 any extent, the following are the most worthy of being seen — 

 Jamin et Durand, Bourg-la-Reine. The partnership existing 

 between MM. J amin et Durand will be dissolved during the 

 present year, and in future two separate nurseries may be 

 looked for at Bourg-la-Eeine. Attached to each will be found 

 an interesting "schooF of fruit culture — i.e., a garden devoted 

 to fully grown specimens of fruit trees both against walls, 

 trellises, and in the open. — M. Croux, nurseryman, VaUee 

 Dauhiay, Sceaux : He has also a very interesting fruit 

 garden. — M. Cochet Suisnes, Brie Comte Robert, Seine-et- 

 Marne : Horizontal cordons and Pears in the columnar 

 form, and young trained trees are here in very good condi- 

 tion. — M. Deseine Bougival, Seine-et-Oise : Here there are 

 large nurseries and also a school of fruit culture. There are 

 in France many other large nurseries very interesting to the 

 fruit-grower, such as Baltet^s at Troy, Leroy's at Angers, 

 Oudin^s at Lisieux, Leconte''s at Dijon, but only those 

 within easy reach of Paris are named. 



The Fig is grown best in the neighbourhood of Argenteuil, 



