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PRUNING AND MANAGEMENT OF THE PEACn TKEE. 



' tlie change of ■\veatlior t«i avIi'uIi tlu-y Avoro exposotl in tliis cmjiitrv: ainl (his accounts for 

 t'lo (HTjisional want of lioldnoss iniiiutod t<> liini in liis Cirecian dcsi^rns. In liis CJotlTu- 

 bniidings, to nnito niodorn comfort with anti(iuatod forms, lie iiitrodiuvd a style wliicli is 

 neither Grecian nor Gothic, hut which is now hecome so preralent that it may he consid 

 cred as a distinct species, and nmst he called Modern Gothic. The details arc often cor- 

 rectly (iothic, hut the outline is Grecian, heing just the reverse of the houses in the reign 

 of Queen Elizaheth and King James, in which the details are often Grecian, while the gen- 

 eral outline is Gothic. In the huildings of that date, we ohserve towers rising holdly ahove 



the roof, and long lower -windows hreaking 

 holilly from the surface; hut in Modern 

 Gothic all is flat, and the small octagon tur- 

 rets, which mark the corners, are neither 

 large enough to contain a screw staircase, 

 nor small enough for chiinnies ; yet this 

 style has its admirers, and therefore I have 

 inserted a specimen, although I conceive it 

 to he in bad taste, and have placed it be- 

 twixt the Grecian and Gdthic, not knowing 

 to Avhich it more properly belongs. If a 

 door, or window, or even a battlement, or 

 turret, of the true Gothic form, be partially 

 discovered, mixed with foliage, it stamps on 

 the scene the character of picturesqneness, 

 of which the accompanying vignette (tig. 3) 

 may serve as an example; and thus the 

 smallest fragment of genuine Gothic often reconciles to the painter its admission into the 

 landscape; even although the great mass of the building may otTend the eye of the anti- 

 quary, or man of correct taste, by its occasional departure from the true Gothic style." 



GOTHIC WINDOW EXTERIOR. 



rr.UXIXG AND MAXAGEMENT OF THE TEACH TliEE.* 



Section IV. — Theoretical Explanation ok the various Operations of Pruning. 



59. The tree being planted as before directed, the next care is to regulate it every 

 year by pruning, so as to cause it to produce shoots proper for training, according to 

 the intended form. But before entering into the details of the operations that a tree 

 requires, from the time of being planted to that of its death, it is highly necessary to 

 explain the general principles, the application of which frequently occurs, and whicli, 

 once explained, will not require to be repeated when I detail the successive manual 

 operations. AVe shall commence by describing the instruments that are used. 



I. Necessary Implements and Tools. 



GO. The tools or implements necessary for pruning fruit-trees are the secateur, tlie 

 pruning-knife, and the saw. 



♦Continued from Janu.irj- niimbor. 



