DIRECTOR THOMAS BE ALL AND HIS HOME. 



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cemeter}-. It is ad- 

 mired by ever}' visitor, 

 and is noted far and 

 wide for its trees and 

 shrubs, many of which 

 are of rare beauty, and 

 are in g"reat variety. 

 The owners, a joint 

 stock company, g-ot 

 an expert from Ro- 

 chester, N. Y., to lay 

 it out, and it was fairly 

 well done. The com- 

 pany also g"ave thi.-~ 

 man an order for all 

 the trees, shrubs, etc., 

 required (a place for 

 each one was marked 

 on the plan), all of 

 which was duly re- 

 ceived and the bill 



Fig. 1799. View at 6. 



Fig. 1798. Home of Mr. Thos. Beall. View at 3. 



for which was (about twenty-five years ag^o) 

 $127.00. In two years there w;is not a 

 dozen living specimens in the cemetery. It 

 was a complete failure principally because 

 the stock furnished was unsuitable for the 

 situation. At the request of the company 

 Mr. Beall then undertook the selection and 

 purchase of the stock required and also the 

 supervision of the planting- and the subse- 

 quent care of the same for one year. The 

 cost of the work was less than one half of 

 the first transaction, and the result is as 

 stated in the tw-o first sentences of this para- 

 graph. 



Among apples and pears certain sorts as- 

 .sume naturally ver}- different forms of growth. 

 Some grow close and compact, some hori- 

 zontally and crooked, while others are slen- 

 der aud thin in their growth, and are indis- 

 posed to put forth lateral shoots. Winter 

 Nelis Pear is of the latter class. In such a 

 case it will be necessar}- to prune closer than 

 in the others at the winter pruning. If the 



thinning of the shoot is attended to in the 

 summer, and gross wood in the middle of 

 the tree kept under, winter pruning will be 

 reduced to a minimum. Trees brought into 

 a bearing state by the above systemof pruning 

 and training will not require root-pruning so 

 often as if pruned on the cut-and-hack system 

 which unfortunately prevails among some in 

 the present day. — Journal of Horticulture. 



