FRUIT CULTURE IN FRANCE. 
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manufactories, the value rises to 80 or even 100 francs the 
hectolitre. The amount of Walnuts produced by the Drome 
department equals, and often exceeds, a quarter of the whole 
annual production of France. Like the nuts of Brive, the 
Correze variety has its reputation in the market. In the Savoie 
district the tree is to be seen in the plains, valleys, and hillsides. 
The produce is sold to the speculative brokers. One tree will 
yield on an average 50 kilos, of nuts. It is said that the Haute - 
Savoie exports annually 400,000 francs' worth of Walnut-wood. 
In the Hautes-Alpes around Gap, and in the Veynes valley, 
graftings are taken from the de Tullins variety ; indeed, from 
all the Isere varieties. 
Walnuts are thought much of in Corsica, at Omessa and 
Santa-Lucia. A Walnut tree forty years old will produce up 
to 3 hectolitres of fruit. 
The Peach (Amygdalus persica.) 
The Peach is the most refined of all fruits, and is particularly 
in request on account of the rapidity with which the tree comes 
into bearing and the delicacy of its produce. 
To grow Peaches as standards out of doors requires a warm 
climate, with an even temperature, just as the vine does. In 
the central districts, commencing at Lyons and going north as 
far as Brussels, Peaches can only be grown on a wall with a 
sunny aspect ; but when both these requirements are provided 
very fine fruit may be grown. 
Peaches can, of course, be grown far more cheaply as standards 
in the open air, and will fetch a very fair price ; but those grown 
on trained trees on walls are more tempting looking, and, of 
course, dearer, as it is more expensive to cultivate fruit in this way. 
In the whole of our southern zone, from Bordeaux to Nice, 
Peach trees are profitably grown as standards in the open air, in 
the fields and orchards, or amongst the vines. The ports of 
Bordeaux and Marseilles ship large cargoes of Peaches coming 
from the South-west, the South, and the South-east of France. 
The grafted variety which predominates in the best plantations 
in France is Amsden June, a variety of American origin 
having the advantages of making a good standard tree and of 
ripening its fruit very early in the open air. At the present 
