ON THE CULTURE OF THE THEE HOSE. IDd 



meriting, take a lesson upon the subject, the first convenient op- 

 portunity, from a scientific gardener. 



A tree well formed, with a promising head, and in health, 

 ought, the spring succeeding (lie budding, to have a clean straight 

 stem, no lumps or knots, one shoot quite at the summit, and two, 

 or at all events, one other shoot as near as possible also to the 

 top; if there are two shoots only, at opposite sides to each other; 

 if three, forming a triangle, if more as nearly equidistant from 

 each other, in the diameter of the stock as possible, (and here be 

 it observed, that the more shoots, at the top of the tree, the hand- 

 somer and quicker is the head formed,) each with a bud inserted 

 in it, close to the stem : and at the cross cut, where the bark of 

 the bud usurps the place of the original bark of the stock, a 

 sufficiency of sap ought to have exuded, not only to have joined 

 the bark of the bud with the unmoved part of the bark above it, 

 but also to have joined the separated part of the bark of the 

 stock to the same place, and thus linked the two barks of bud 

 and stock to the single bark of the stock above them. 



The edges of the vertical slit in the bark do not heal by at- 

 taching themselves to each other, but the bark of the bud under- 

 neath them forms a connecting link, and the edges above men- 

 tioned perish insensibly away, leaving little or no scar behind. 

 The second spring, the tree becomes more perfect, the extra- 

 neous parts of the stock, if any remain, are cut off, as well as 

 those of the shoots, and the head so arranged as to throw its 

 buds where they are wanted to make it round, even, and hand- 

 some. If, however some shoot be obstinately bent on growing in 

 any direction, spoiling the appearance, and crossing the others, 

 by no means remove it on that account alone, but place a little 

 twig across from it to any other convenient branch, and confine it 

 for the season as you wish it to be, removing the ligature in the 

 succeeding spring, or even in the same autumn when the sap is 

 down. 



Lastly, the third spring the tree should show itself with all its 

 wounds nearly closed, its buds strong, full, and healthy, and it. 

 should look perfectly natural, those parts of the shoots upon 

 which the buds were placed more incorporated with the stock. 

 The bark clean, no dead wood ; and wherever a shoot lias been 

 shortened, the place so grown over as to leave 1:0 dis-siglit, which 

 will be the case for some time wherever any wood more than 

 one Beason old is cut away, and a thin shun: or 1 single year 



