886 ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. PART III. 
and the objection made now to it by proprietors is the same as it was in 
former days. “ The poore will breake downe our hedges, and wee shall 
haue the least part of the fruit ;” but, notwithstanding this fear, we repeat, with 
Gerard, whose words we have above quoted, “ Forward, in the name of God, 
grafte, set, plant, and nourish up trees in euery corner of your ground: the 
labour is small, the cost is nothing ; the commodity is great : your selues shal. 
haue plenty; the poore shall haue somewhat in time of want to relieve their 
necessity ; and God shall reward your good mindes and diligence.” (Herbal, 
p- 1459.) In the autumn of 1828, when in the south of Germany, we were 
much struck with the beauty and value of the lines of fruit trees which bordered 
all the public roads; the apples and pears having their branches bent to the 
ground with fruit. On our return, we published the following observations in 
the Gardener's Magazine, which were met by exactly the same objections 
from our correspondents as those stated by Gerard to have been urged in his 
time, nearly 300 years ago: — “ The common objection to planting fruit trees 
in hedges is, that depredations would be made on them by the poor; but it 
is to avoid such depredations on the fruit trees of the rich, and to assist in 
humanising and rendering better and happier the poor, that we are desirous 
of introducing fruit trees every where. If the poor in Britain and Ireland 
were rendered what the poor are in Wurtemburg and Baden, fruit trees here 
would be as safe as they are there. If apples and pears were as commonly 
grown as potatoes and turnips, depredations would not be more frequently 
committed on the one kind of crop than on the other. The cherry and 
the pear are particularly eligible as hedgerow fruit trees, and would supply 
kirschewasser (see p.697.) and perry; and entire hedges might be made of 
many sorts of plums and apples, for plum brandy (see p. 690.) and cider, 
besides the common culinary purposes of the fruit.” (Gard. Mag., vol. v. 
. 115. 
cf A pcb application of 
the new sorts of pears is, to 
insert scions of them on old 
pear trees of inferior sorts, 
after heading the latter down. 
As grafts can readily be pro- 
cured from the Horticultural 
Societies of Londonand Edin- 
burgh, by all who are fellows 
of these societies, for the 
trouble of asking; and, by 
those who are not fellows 
of any society, for a mere ai] “ij, 
trifle, from the nurserymen; fr i bf f 
there can be no sufficient ex- Ui Wo VA pi) 
cuse for not performing this GBS 
important operation whenever ; 
an opportunity is afforded. It may be alleged by some, that nurserymen will 
not sell grafts or scions ; but, if any refuse to do this, all that is requisite is, 
to purchase a plant from them, and cut the shoots off it, treating these shoots 
as scions for budding or grafting are usually treated. If the plant is pur- 
chased in the summer, in time for budding from its shoots, an arrangement 
may be made with the nurseryman for letting it stand in the nursery till the 
drawing season, in the autumn; when it will most likely have made a second 
series of shoots, which may be either cut off for grafting; or the plant may be 
removed, and serve asa tree. We mention this, to show that no nurseryman 
has anything to gain by refusing to sell grafts, either of fruit trees, or of any 
other tree. Some very interesting experiments on grafting cankered pear 
trees with new vigorous-growing Flemish sorts will be found detailed by 
Mr. Rivers, in the 12th volume of the Gardener’s Magazine ; by which it ap- 
pears, that trees in such a diseased state that their trunks were eaten through 
in every direction by an insect in the larva state (probably the Dércus 

