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wire fencing, now so much in vogue, with 

 jixe or six wives for training the shoots 

 horizontally to, and having either iron or 

 oak supports and straining posts. When | 

 once these are fixed, the after trouble is 

 very trilling ; a coat of mineral paint or 

 the tar mixture once in two years will 

 keep them in good repair, and they form a 

 very neat training espalier, very suitable 

 for Pears, Apples, Plums, and Cherries. 

 The bottom wire should be twelve inches 

 from the earth, and the others nine inches 

 apart. We prefer this to bushes for gardens 



of limited size, and they form neat divisional 

 fences, and for bordering the main walks. 

 Another great advantage of espaliers is the 

 ease with which the trees, when in bloom, 

 can be protected from spring frosts by 

 forming a slight framing over the line of 

 rail, on which canvas or garden mats may 

 be placed day and night, when danger is 

 apprehended. Any of the manufacturers 

 of wire fencing woidd give estimates for 

 the cost of espalier such as we recommend. 

 — Turner's Florist, May. 



THE CULTURE OF PAWLONIA LMPEPJALLS. 



This most beautiful plant can he propa- 

 gated either from the root or cuttings of the 

 stem. It requires a very rich soil to do well 

 n, and if yon give it plenty of dung when 

 you plant it, especially when you want to 

 propagate it by the roots, you will be more 

 certain to make fine plants ; and if you planted 

 in the autumn, you will be able to get roots 

 large enough to make plants the next autumn. 

 when you can dig round the mother plant, 

 and cut off as many pieces as you think you 

 require ; place them round the sides of your 

 pots or pan.-, the latter being preferable, and 

 put in the middle of your pots or pans a 

 mixture of loam, peat, dung, and roadsand. 

 Put them in a cold frame till spring, and 

 then remove them into heat, and in a short 

 time they will start vigorously. When they 

 are grown about three inches, put them into 

 a cooler frame or greenhouse, and, by degrees, 



harden them off and stand them out in a 

 shady place all the summer; and early in the 

 autumn plunge them in a south aspect; 

 there let them remain till spring, then pot 

 them off, or turn them out, as y'ou may re- 

 quire to use them. In two years you will 

 have nice plants, lit for any of the purposes 

 to which Pawlonia may be applied. I shall 

 not soon forget tha pleasure it gave, me 

 when 1 first hit upon the mode of growing 

 them here described. If you cannot get the 

 roots, there is another method, namely, by cut- 

 tings. Cut off some pieces of the old wood, and 

 place them in heat, and when the shoots are 

 two inches long, take them off with a 

 heel, and put them in the same soil as 

 above described for the roots, and serve them 

 in the same way. and good plants will be 

 the re-ult. 



Hill Nursery. J. C. 



PEGGING- DOWN. 



AfteK trying every method I have ever 

 seen or heard of, I give my vote for bass 

 matting as the best. Take a short strip, 

 pa-s it over the stem to be fixed, put the two 

 ends together, and dib them in firm either 

 with the finger, and a bit of tile, or a small 

 dibber. I prefer the first small stone I can 

 lay my hands on, and would undertake to 

 cut up a mat into lengths, and peg down 

 securely a given number of plants, in half 

 the time it would take to cut pegs, either 

 from snowberry, fern, or deal, and by the 

 way, a deal lath split up and wetted makes 

 as good pegs as anything. Hair pins I 

 never use, from a constitutional horror of 

 iron in the soil. I can't even bear to drop a 

 nail on the border, when dressing wall trees. 



I saw the other day, at Mr. Clarke's, in 

 Bishopsgate-street, an invention for pegging 

 down, which consisted of a zinc stem, bent 

 over into a hook at the upper end. For 

 stout subjects requiring a firm grip, these 

 would, no doubt, be useful, and 1 should 

 recommend them to those who use hair pins 

 as a substitute free from pernicious effects on 

 the soil; but, depend upon it, when once you 

 take to bass for the purpose, you will soon 

 need nothing else. — An Old Gardener. 



Pegging Down. — The article I use for 

 the purpose, is common hair pins, which I 

 find answer well and are very neat, they can 

 be bought from Is. to Is. 3d. per pound. 



J. R. 



