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down ; and, their luxuriance being thus materially checked, 

 they are in consequence always furnished with fruit-bear- 

 ing spurs ; they are productive, and the fruit they produce 

 is far superior to that which is produced on the common 

 standard. 



We are further informed, that under such management 

 quenouilles require but little room, a square of a few feet 

 each way being deemed sufficient; their fruit, being within 

 reach, may be easily thinned to enlarge its size ; it is more 

 secure against high winds, and, being near the ground, the 

 additional warmth it receives materially insures its ripening 

 in perfection. 



In the autumn of 1840, being on a visit to London, I 

 saw, at the garden of the London Hort. Society, the trees 

 which had thus been trained, then in a very high state of 

 productiveness ; they still preserved, in a measure, their 

 destined form ; those shoots which inclined to grow 

 upwards at the summit of the tree, being checked or 

 shortened. The trees at that garden are usually set in 

 very compact order, their branches generally extending 

 downwards, quite to the ground. Mr. Wilmot, a very dis- 

 tinguished cultivator of fruits for the London market, 

 practises this same system, evidently as the most econom- 

 ical and profitable of any other mode. His pear trees, 

 being set in compact order, and suffered to branch low, 

 produced abundantly. So also at Mr. Kirke's establish- 

 ment, an eminent cultivator of fruits at Brompton, near 

 London, the same system, and this only, appeared to prevail ; 

 his pear and apple trees being planted but about twelve 

 feet asunder, or less, and suffered to branch quite down to 

 the ground, produced the most abundant crops. 



SUBS. 7th. Fruitfulness is induced by a suitable season 

 of repose. The trees and plants, the natives of the tem- 

 perate climates, require a winter, or season of rest ; they 

 awaken in the spring, refreshed by their slumbers, to new 

 life and productiveness. Such trees and plants, therefore, 

 become unfruitful within the tropics, finding no rest, nor 

 their wonted season of repose, except only in the moun- 

 tainous elevations. Yet in some tropical countries, they 

 give to their vines, by artificial means, a suitable time of 

 rest and slumber ; and they awake to fruitfulness for a sea- 

 son. [See VINE, and its Cultivation.'} 



