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FRUIT-GARDENING. 



the fan shape. From the experiments he has made, he has 

 found that the shoots coming from those parts of the branches 

 bent downwards, are more productive than from those ascending. 

 He considers deep digging around the vine, even to the destruc- 



tion of some of the extending roots, as calculated to promote 

 the -growth of more fruit and less wood than if allowed to 

 spread near the surface ; and he disapproves stopping the shoots 

 before the fruit until early in July. 



LAYING DOWN VINES IN WINTER. 



Mr. William Wilson, of Clermont, leaves his foreign vines 



