FRUIT-GARDENING. 1 1 



order to prevent injury. All damaged or braised roots should 

 be pruned, as soon as the tree is taken up ; but if it be neces- 

 sary to prune away any sound, good roots, such pruning should 

 be delayed until the time of planting. In pruning away roots, 

 always let them be finished by a clear cut, and in a sloping 

 direction. When trees are planted at an advanced season in 

 the spring of the year, it will be necessary to prune the tops ; 

 and if trees are removed that have been trained three or four 

 years, and are not properly supplied with young wood, they 

 must be cut down either wholly or partially, in order to obtain 

 a sufficiency. In practising this upon Apricot and Nectarine 

 trees, always prune so as to have a leading shoot close below 

 the cut, as it is very rare they will push a shoot below, unless 

 there be a lead. This attention is not so particularly required 

 in the Pear, as such will generally push forth shoots, although 

 no leading ones are left; but in all kinds, the younger the 

 wood is, the more certainly are shoots to be produced. If a 

 tree that has been under training for one or two years, should 

 only have one strong, leading shoot, and' two or three weaker 

 ones which do not proceed from it, let the weak shoots be 

 pruned clean away, and shorten the strong one, from which a 

 handsome head may afterwards be formed. For further direc- 

 tions as respects pruning or planting fruit-trees, the reader is 

 referred to the succeeding articles on these subjects. 



DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF FRUIT. 



In order to assist the reader in making a judicious selection 

 of fruit-trees, I have furnished a short description of such 

 species and varieties as are in great repute for every good 

 quality. Previous to making this selection, I carefully perused 

 Prince's Pomological Manual, Kenrick's American Orchard- 

 ist, Lindley's Guide to the Orchard and Fruit Garden, and 

 Manning's Descriptive Catalogue of Fruits. Besides these im- 

 portant guides, I had the select catalogues of different nursery- 

 men before me, and have chosen such only as have been most 



