The parks and gardens of Paris, considered in relation to the wants of other cities and of the public and private gardens; being notes on a study of Paris gardens (1878)
Robinson, W. (William), 1838-1935 · London, Macmillan · leaf 347
the earth orplaced in an unnatural position, thereby preventing their fulldevelopment. By-and-by, the trees that have been planted thusare cut to half the length that they were when they came fromthe nursery, having a number of weak, useless branches on thelower part, a condition which, as every… … in an oblique direction. To obtain the oblique form withoutplanting the tree in a crooked position, the stem is cut at eight fiiAP. XVITI.] THE PEACH AS A CORDON. 305 inches from the graft, and pLaced in the ground so that the baseof the stem is four inches from the wall, with its extremity…
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