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THE FLOEAL WOELD AND GAEDEN GUIDE. 



cumbens would nnswer your purpose ; it 

 makes a benntiful turf for slopes!, and is 

 not particiilar as to soil. 



Plantixo a new Gaiidex.— I am building 

 a new parsoniige house at this place, 

 which is just about to be covered in. I 

 shall have a garden of upwards of three 

 roods of land. I am anxious, of course, 

 to plant trees of different sorts, the best 

 suited to the soil, which is rich, silty 

 warp. I shall have good walls for 

 peaclies, etc. As I am a subscriber to 

 your Fi.oK.u. World, may I beg the 

 favour of your advice as to wiiat sorts of 

 fruit trees will suit this northern climate 

 — the north of Lincolnshire — on the 

 banks of the Trent, and almost on the 

 borders of Yorkshire ; and whether 

 bushes or pyramids will answer best for 

 apples, penrs, plums, and cherries, and 

 wbt'ther a quince stock, as recommended 

 by Mr. Elvers, in his book, or otherwise. 

 — TF". li. A., Bmvtry, Yorkshire. [As we 

 presume, your garden is yet unmade, let 

 us first of all say to you, before you 

 think of planting, prepare by thoi-ougli 

 drainage for the permanent well-doing 

 of your fruit trees. If you have an out- 

 let sufficiently deep, insert the drain- 

 pipes at a depth of three feet, and a dis- 

 tance of ten or twelve feet from drain to 

 drain ; over the pipes lay six inches of 

 stones the size of an egg, broken tiles, 

 chalk, or any similar materiul, through 

 which the water will percolate freely. 

 Tiie drainage once well done, is done for 

 a lifetime. If an outfall for the drain- 

 age cannot be secured at three feet, a 

 depth of two feet will answer very well. 

 If your situa'ion is much exposed to vio- 



, lent winds, it will be bettor that you 

 should plant chiefly dwarf pyramids, as 

 the wind has but little power to shake 

 the fruit from such trees; but if you are 

 not so exposed, you may plant a fair 

 proportion of standards, as these will 

 make a feature in your garden, besides 

 producing, in the course of a few years, 

 large quantities of fruit. But for an 

 immediate supply, as well as permanent 

 utility, plant as much ground as you can 

 spare with well-prepared pj-ramids from 

 the nursery. Procure apples on para- 



, dise stocks, pears on quince, plums on 

 sloes, and if you are careful in your se- 

 lection of plants, and have them well 

 planted, you may reap a considerable 

 crop from them in the forthcoming 

 summer of 1863. Before we give you a 

 list of fruits that will succeed to satis- 

 faction from the south of Cornwall to 

 "John O'Groat's house," let us say to 

 you that the value of your garden will 



be enhanced ten-fold by the erection of 

 a small orchard-house, where you would 

 always be sure of a crop of fruit, let the 

 weather be what it might when the 

 plants are blooming. Say a house sixty 

 feet long, and sixteen feet wide in the 

 clear, span-roofed, would give eighty 

 plants at three feet apart, thus — 



twenty plants on each side, and forty 

 plants in the middle bed, A, in two rows, 

 and you might, if you please, have 

 eighty varieties of pears, plums, apricots, 

 peaches, and nectarines, which would 

 be a perennial source of gratification 

 and profit. Tliere is not the slightest 

 occasion for a heating apparatus, only 

 secure thorough ventilation. Apples — 

 Hawthornden, Dutch Codlin, Eibston 

 Pippin, Fearu's Pippin, King of the 

 Pippins, Blenheim Orange, Margill, 

 Court Pendu Plat, and Red Quarren- 

 den (early). Ptars, placed in the order 

 of their ripening, Buerre Diel, Hacon's 

 Incomparable, Forelle, Cliaumontel, 

 Passe Colmar, Easter Buerre, and 

 Buerre Ilance Peaches— Noblesse, Vio- 

 lette Hative, Barringtou, Chancellor. 

 Nectarines — Elruge, Violette Hative. 

 Plums — Greengage, Eeiue Claude de 

 Bavay, Jefferson, Denyer's Victoria, 

 Eeine Claude Violette (purple gage), 

 Dunmore, Coe's Golden Drop, Coe's Fine 

 Late Eed. Apricots — Moor Park. Cher- 

 ries — Kentish, Late Duke (let these ^be 

 pyramids). Mon-ello for thewall.] 

 Barren Walnut. — A Subscriber frora the 

 First has a walnut tree thirty years old 

 which has never borne fruit. Can any- 

 thing be done to induce it to be once 

 fruitful ? [The w^alnut is long coining 

 into a fruiting condition. While in a 

 young state it grows vigorously for many 

 years, when once it has taken good hold 

 of the soil, and it is not until this exu- 

 berant growth is somewhat exhausted, 

 and a moderate growth succeeds, that the 

 tree begins to bear. Bearing maj' be 

 accelerated by "ringing," that is, by 

 taking a ring of bark from all around 

 the stem of the tree two inches in width, 

 filling up the hoUov/ so made with cow- 

 dung and loam. But it is safest to let 

 the tree take its own course, and grow 

 itself into bearing condition.] 



