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You perceive I have attended to your suggestion, respecting a 

 diagram to represent tlie inside arrangement of the seed. 1 think 

 it a very good plan, and shall observe it in future. I am much 

 gratified at tlie appearance of the Review. It is certainly to be 

 much commended as an individual enterprise. We do not get up 

 such large works in England, unless under the patronage of so- 

 cieties. I shall occasionally send you such information of fruits 

 and flowers, as, in my opinion, will be interesting to your readers, 

 which I hope may be legion. R- L- 



PRUNING SHRUBBERY. 



Prukixg is an important element in the proper management of 

 the shrubbery, and requires as much attention as the pruning of 

 any other trees or plants. The objects of pruning shrubs gencr- 

 ly are, to modify the form, or lessen the bulk, of over-luxuriant 

 specimens ; the removal of dead, sickly, and misplaced branches ; 

 the shortening back, even to the extent of cutting over to within 

 a few inches of the roots, such as are declining in health and 

 vigor. In the case of many flowering shrubs, other considera- 

 tions are to be kept in view, and these are founded on their natu- 

 ral habits and mode of flowering. As, the Rose will be treated 

 upon in another article, the remarks upon it are omitted. The 

 Honey-suckle should be spurred into one or two eyes of the pre- 

 vious year's wood ; Tree Peeonies often require their branches to 

 be thinned out when too much crowded, but their terminal shoots 

 should never be shortened, as it is at the points their blossoms 

 are produced ; Weigela rosea floAvers upon the wood of the previ- 

 ous year, therefore removing much of that lessens the abundance 

 the following season. The season of pruning the majority of 

 shrubs is during Autumn and Winter, and that of coniferous 

 shrubs and trees, late in the Spring, after the sap has commenced 

 circulation. — Western Agriculturist. 



