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to leave behind him trees that he has nurtured with the ut- 

 most care. 



"4th. The possibility of netting over a complete miniature 

 orchard, so as lo protect it from the nipping frosts of spring, 

 and the depredations of birds in sunmier. 



"In conchision, I must again recommend caution; enough of 

 vigor must be left in the tree to support its crop of fruit, and 

 one, two, or three seasons' cessation from root-pruning, will 

 often be found necessary. 



"By beginners, the following directions should be observed: 

 If a number of established trees are to be operated upon, I 

 should recommend them not to be all pruned in one season: 

 thus, I would prune one third the first year, and the remain- 

 der the two seasons following; for it must be recollected, that 

 trees in a state of uncontrolled luxuriance, suddenly and se- 

 verely root-pruned, will not be able to bring any fruit to per- 

 fection the following season. 



"It is perhaps departing from the fruit garden rather sudden- 

 ly, but 1 cannot forbear suggesting, how exceedingly orna- 

 mental, even to the smallest lawns, may be niade (by root- 

 pruning,) some of the most beautiful of our flowering trees, 

 such as the varieties of the hawthorn (Cratae^gus) pyrus, more 

 particularly Pyrus spectabilis, a most splendid tree, but too 

 luxuriant for small flower gardens; above all, the varieties of 

 Robinia, which, at present, owing to their rudeness of 

 growth, and consequent liability to being wind-riven, cannot 

 be planted in any flower garden, or on any lawn; with root- 

 pruning, they may be made (particularly as standards) objects 

 of extreme beaut}^ 



"The varieties of the horse-chestnut, many of uhich are 

 too rude for small lawns, may also be made to produce their 

 flowers abundantly; and some of the climbing roses, such as 

 the Banksian roses, varieties of i?6sa sempervirens, the 

 Boursault and Ayrshire roses, may be checked by root-prun- 

 ing, so as to produce their flowers in incredible abundance; I 

 need not point out to the rose cultivator the great advantage 

 of keeping these too vigorous species of roses in bounds; if 

 the soil is rich, and they are trained lo pillars, they soon get 

 unwieldy and suffer much from the wind, and if the knife is 

 used, it only induces an abundance of shoots, and checks all 

 tendency to the production of flowers. Now radical pruning 

 at once remedies the evil, and pillars of roses from six tooight 



