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remain. All the others must be removed, and those remaining, when 
six inches or so in length, will require to be brought down in an hori- 
zontal direction. A ring of wire, about fifteen inches in diameter, 
should be fixed to the top of the stake for tying the shoots to. The 
heads are trained into form in much the same manner as the bush 
specimens, only of course they are much smaller. The flowers of 
these as well as of the pyramids and bushes, must be thinned to 
one toa shoot. Pompones and large-flowered kinds make splendid 
standards. 
Cur Biooms are produced by plants that are not stopped at all. 
They are shifted on as advised for the specimens, are potted in a 
sunilar compost, and receive the same attention, with the exception 
that they are not stopped or trained. They will produce three or 
four shoots each, and these must be allowed to attain their full 
length, and when the buds are sufliciently developed they must be 
thinned to one to each shoot. The plants are by no means orna- 
mental, but it is only by limiting the number of blooms to about 
three to each plant that flowers equal to the magnificent examples 
met with at the exhibitions can be produced. 
CHRYSANTHZMUMS FOR THE CONSERVATORY are not required to 
be so stiffly trained as for exhibition purposes ; indeed, plants from 
two to four feet in height, with about a dozen shoots each, are more 
useful for decorations than the convex specimens, which are so 
attractive upon the exhibition stage. A grand display of bloom may 
be produced by striking the cuttings in March, and then shifting 
them on, as advised for the specimens, They will require stopping 
four times, the last stopping to be done towards the end of July. 
The shoots must be tied out loosely, to afford room for the proper 
development of the foliage upon each shoot, but the shoots must not 
be brought down in an horizontal direction, or closely trained in 
any way. Pompones required for decoratiens in six-inch pots, 
should be struck about the end of April, be potted off singly when 
nicely rooted, and towards the end of June be put into the pots in 
which they are to flower. 
PROTECTION OF CHOICE FRUITS FROM SPRING 
FROST. 
BY W. JOHNSON. 
S it is possible to do a large amount of injury to wall 
i trees in the spring by an injudicious application of pro- 
tecting materials, a few words of advice may at the 
present moment be of some service to those who have 
fruit trees trained to walls, and are without professional 
assistance. lt is unnecessary to refer to the immense amount of 
mischief that is in many years done to the blossom of the majority 
of the hardy fruits, for that is sufficiently known already. The 
flowers of the peach and nectarine trees are usually cut off first, for 
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