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few blossoms, but not any fruit, were produced by several of 
the grafts in the succeeding spring; but in the following year, 
and subsequently, I have had abundant crops, equally dispersed 
over every part of the tree; and’ I have scarcely ever seen such 
an exuberance of blossom as this tree presents in the present 
spring (1813). Grafts of eight different kinds of pears had been 
inserted, and all afforded fruit, and almost in equal abundance. 
By this mode of training, the bearing-branches, being small and 
short, mav be changed every three or four years, till the tree is 
a century old, without the loss ofa single crop; and the ceutral 
part, which is unproductive in every other mode of training, be- 
comes the most fruitful. When a tree, thus trained, has per- 
fectly covered the wall, it will have taken very nearly the form 
recommended by me in the Horticultural Transactions of 1808, 
- except that the small branches necessarily pass down behind the 
large. I proceed to the management of young trees. 
A young pear-stock, which had two lateral branches upon each 
side, and was about six feet high, was planted against a wall 
early in the spring of 1510; and it was grafted in each of its la- 
teral branches, two of which sprang out of the stem about four 
feet from the ground, and the others at its summit, in the fol- 
lowing year. The shoots these grafts produced, when about a 
foot long, were trained downwards, as in the preceding experi- 
ment, the undermost nearly perpendicularly, and the uppermost 
just below the horizontal line, placing them at such distances, 
that the leaves of one shoot did not at all shade those of another. 
In the next year, the same mode of training was continued; and 
in the following, that is the last year, I obtained an abundant 
crop of fruit, and the tree is again heavily loaded with blossoms. 
This mode of training was first applied to the Aston Town 
Pear, which rarely produces fruit till six or seven years after the 
trees have been grafted ; and from this variety, and the Colmar, I 
have not obtained fruit till the grafts have been three years old. 
LXI. Results of a Meteorological Journal for the Year 1821, 
kept at the Observatory of the Academy, Gosport. By 
WixtuiaM Burney, LL.D. 
Gosport, March 15, 1822. 
Sir, — if HEREWITH forward you the results of my last year’s 
Meteorological Journal for the Philosophical Magazine, if you 
should deem them worth inserting. They are on a more exten- 
sive scale than the results of registers in general, and therefore 
will afford more information. I should have sent them early in 
February, had I not been unavoidably prevented; and am, 
Sir, your very obedient servant, 
To Dr. Tilloch. WILLIAM BuRNEY. 
