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crop is found to be much more abundant than the first, and lasts 

 from the 20th of May until the frosts set in, the plants growing 

 much more rapidly and vigorously than if they had been raised 

 from cuttings or runners. From about the middle of June the 

 plants are well watered every day at the rate of a gallon of water 

 to every ten plants. After the third year's crop the plants are 

 pulled up and destroyed, the order of operations being — first year, 

 sowing ; second year, first crop from the end of July only ; third 

 year, a full and abundant crop from May 20 until the first frosts 

 set in. The seedling Four Seasons Strawberry being more 

 vigorous in its growth than the others, continues bearing to a 

 later period, but it is not adapted for forcing, the plants produced 

 from division or runners being preferable for this purpose. It is 

 hardly necessary to remind growers that this variety is the only 

 one that can be reproduced from seed ; the English and American 

 sorts not only do not yield the variety to which they belong, but 

 produce a mixture of as many kinds as there are plants, and 

 must, therefore, necessarily be propagated by means of runners." 



The fruit-garden in the botanic gardens at Eouen contains a 

 good many of what are called model trees, and many cordons ; 

 but on the whole, while there is much that is curious, it afibrds 

 little instruction. Specimens in the U form of trained trees 

 abound. The only noticeable feature was a trifling one — placing 

 Willow-wands in the exact direction in which it is desired to 

 conduct the chief branches. That done, little remains but to tie 

 the young shoots to the Willows as often as necessary. There 

 was one good specimen here of a winged pyramid — i.e., a pyramid 

 having the branches trained in five vertical lines, and with the 

 points united by grafting. 



Tkoyes. — This old town is interesting to the horticulturist 

 from the experienced fruit-growers, MM, Baltet, having exten- 

 sive nurseries in and near it. Their nursery is extensive and 

 rich in advanced specimens of pyramidal and other Pear-trees. 

 Horizontal cordons, where established, bear wonderfully well. 

 Thus the Lady Apple, well established on the Doucin stock, bore 

 fruit almost as thick as the Apples could sit on a cordon not 

 closely pinched in ; but on the Doucin the shoots grow too 

 vigorously, and do not preserve that compact habit which is so 

 desirable in these trees. If the soil were very poor and light and 



