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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 



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4 feet from the surface, the age is computed from the time of 

 working, the stocks being generally three years old at that 

 time, and they are what are termed free stocks. I ought, 

 perhaps, to say here that I find Quince stocks, and Paradise 

 stocks too, lift quite as well as Crab or Pear stocks, but it is 

 not so with Cerasus Mahaleb. I do not find this stock lift at 

 aU well in any soil ; after the trees get large every bruise or 

 scratch m the roots becomes attacked by a fungus which al- 

 ways produces bad health and frequently death. 



Doyemi^ d'Et^. . . 



Broom Pai-k 



Urbaniste 



Doyenn6 Bobln . 

 Soldat Espereu . 

 Benrrl- Deil (J!g. 2 

 Doyenn ■ Bussoch 



All these have been very much prmied so as to bring them 

 into shape. I will now name a few removed in 18G3 to a new 

 garden about thi-ee miles distant, and doing well. 



Years. 



Jargonelle 10 



Gnnsel's Bergomot ' 10 



Urbaniste i 9 



Thompson's | 10 



Passans de Portugal 10 



Louise Bonne of .Jersey 10 



16 



The diameter of the stem is taken 2 or .3 inches from the 

 ground. I have given so many varieties, as some amongst 

 them may be known to every one, as well as to show that all 

 succeed equally well. 



The other Apples removed iu 1803 cannot be strictly called 

 pyramids, they ai'e more properly " Bush " trees. Many 

 varieties of Apples I find rather lUfficuU to keep leaders to, so 

 as to form pyramids. I have not given the dimensions of either 

 Plums or Cherries, but they are equally large. 



I will lastly name a few lifted in 1803, and relifted in 1804, 

 many of which have been removed to my new garden and are 

 doing very well ; they ai'e some which have not been regularly 

 hfted, and therefore require two liftings to insure theu' doing 

 really well after removal. They are all standards with stems 

 from 4 to 9 feet high. 



Years. 



ge Bergamot 25 



Catillac 15 



Glou Mor^-eau {Jig. 1) ' 18 



Broom Park I 16 



Knight's Monarch i 16 



Eyewood I 16 



Height. Spread, 



These were not commenced with youug. Many others six- 

 teen to eighteen years old have large spreading heads. — G. 

 Lee, F.R.K.S., Marliet Gtinlener, Clevedon, Somerset. 



SAVING PEAS FROM SPAREOWS. 

 Thebe is a much gi'eater enemy to Peas than the mouse, I always convenient to have them, and in other eases there are 

 and that is the sparrow, with which everyone is troubled more not enough of them ; for my part I never use them, but I have 

 or less, unless they be provided with Pea-protectors. It is not | adopted a practice which for fourteen years has never failed 



