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ducing wood, when a rich mellow compost should 

 be used as occasional top dressing. 



In the summer the grosser shoots should be 

 stopped, and thinned out for the sun to penetrate. 

 They do not require much pruning in the winter. 

 The cross shoots should be taken out wherever 

 they are crowded. No shortening is required 

 except the branches become over-rampant. The 

 best time for cutting truncheons is in February. 

 They should be placed a foot deep in the earth, 

 and moss rolled round all the portion which is 

 above ground, except the upper pair of buds, in 

 order to avoid evaporation. Mulberry trees bear 

 forcing excellently, and the fruit will ripen in 

 June. 



This tree will bear a very high temperature, and 

 it may be grown also as dwarfs in pots, and forced. 



RECIPE 

 Mulberry Cream 



Take a pound of mulberries and stew them in their own 

 juice, and one pound of cane sugar. When soft, rub them 

 through a hair sieve, and have ready a pint of whipped 

 cream and pour the juice into the cream ; add a gill of 

 gelatine that has been soaked in milk and rubbed through a 

 sieve ; pour gradually in, and then mould. 



NECTARINES 



This delicious fruit should be grown either 

 against south or south-west walls in the open air, 

 and trained to a fair shape. Planting nectarine 

 trees is best at the beginning of November. The 



