subject further, will find details of the modes 

 of operating, in English horticultural publi- 

 cations. A mode new of training fruit trees, 

 practiced in the north of Russia, is well 

 deserving of trial in the colder parts of New 

 England, especially for cultivating the peach. 

 A tree, one year from the graft, is headed 

 down to two healthy, strong wood-buds. 

 These are trained horizontally, about ten or 

 twelve inches from the ground, to a south 

 wall; perhaps the north side of a wall 

 might do quite as well, in our more changea- 

 climate. These arms are suffered to throw 

 up vertical shoots, which become covered witji 

 fruit-spurs. These vertical shoots are kept 

 shortened-in, to a length of not more than 

 about one or two feet ; and these with the two 

 horizontal arms from which they spring, and 

 the short trunk of about ten to fourteen inches, 

 in length, constitute all there is of the tree 

 above ground. The whole tree may be 

 covered, through the winter, with two feet or 

 more of soil heaped over it, with a deep bank 

 of snow, or with straw, evergreen boughs, or 

 the like. 



We have had a similar experiment repeatedly 

 try itself, in our garden, where a low limb of 



