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instance, as the Washington and Magnum Bonum, &c., if 

 planted in a liberal soil, produce excessive growths of rampant 

 wood, which is very detrimental to the well-being of the tree, 

 and should not be allowed to grow. They should be removed 

 during the growing season ; if not done then they must be 

 .cut clean out in Winter. The gross shoots having been cut 

 clean away, and the remainder thinned duly out, little remains 

 to be done with old or bearing trees, unless they are 

 producing too much gross wood, when they should be root- 

 pruned as directed for apples and pears. List of 1 2 select 

 plums given in their order of ripening : Early Mirabelli, 

 middle of January ; Early Rivers, last of January ; Early 

 Orleans, beginning of February ; Brahy's Greengage and 

 Belle de Louvain, middle of February ; Jefferson and Pond's 

 Seedling, end of February ; Late Black Orleans, Damson, 

 and Coe's Golden Drop, early in March ; Reine Claude Bavy, 

 middle of March; Coe's Late Red, 'April. 



Quince. Every garden should have at least one or two 

 quince trees. Grown as standards, they require a loamy soil. 

 They occupy but little space, and require no pruning except 

 an occasional thinning of the over-crowded inner branches. 



The Raspberry succeeds in any rich garden soil that 

 is not too stiff, but prefers one that is very rich and rather 

 moist. It grows exceedingly well in sandy, alluvial ground, 

 also in peat and soils that are mixed with peat ; but those 

 that are heavy and compact, becoming hard in dry weather, 

 do not suit it. In all cases abundance of decomposed 

 manure should be applied when the ground is trenched before 

 planting, and afterwards every Autumn as a top dressing, to 

 be forked in in the following Spring. The ground should 

 be trenched at least two feet deep, and if to the depth of 

 three feet so much the better. Raspberries are culti- 

 vated by suckers or by seeds, the usual mode being by 

 suckers. Select young canes, with plenty of fibrous roots. 

 Plant three in each clump, six inches apart, in rows four feet 

 apart, and three feet clump from clump. Another plan which 

 commends itself for its neatness is to plant single canes, two 

 feet apart in rows, along a trellis composed of three wires ; 

 the canes to be tied to the wire. Before or after the young 

 canes are planted they should be cut back to half their length. 



