3/8 Notes and Gleanings. 



therefore, who may wish to procure these trees in whatever form they desire, — 

 cordon oblique, horizontal, vertical, one-armed or two-armed, — may here do so to 

 their heart's content. A novel form of cultivating the Morello Cherry, which I 

 have only once seen before, was pointed out to me ; that is, as dwarf gooseberry- 

 bushes, — a really admirable plan. How enormous the quantity of fruit that might 

 be grown in a small space in this way ! and we all know how well suited the 

 Morello is to this style of growth. 



Another specialty now receiving Messrs. Veitch's attention is orchard-house 

 trees ; and a finer lot than those to be seen here cannot well be desired. Num- 

 bers of them are established in pots ; some plunged in the soil in a small orchard- 

 house (fine examples they are too), others plunged in the open quarters. An 

 excellent mode adopted by the Messrs. Veitch, or what Mr. Reid, their able 

 manager, calls "preparing the trees," is the planting-out in the open ground the 

 young maiden trees, and there growing them to the size and form desired. They 

 in this way attain the desired size sooner, and form much stronger and finer trees, 

 than those that may be grown in pots. Example : a maiden peach-tree is plant- 

 ed in light but rich soil in November, and pruned as required in February, the 

 side shoots pinched, if requisite, during the summer ; such trees, if potted in the 

 end of September, will fruit in the following year. If larger plants are desired, 

 they must remain in the ground another season or two. By this plan, the pot cul- 

 tivation of one season at least is entirely avoided ; and Messrs. Veitch's trees 

 treated in this way are very good indeed, — fruitful, stocky trees. — London your- 

 nal of Horticulture. 



ERRATa.M. — The Salem Grape was inadvertently described in our May 

 number as black. It is red^ like the Catawba. 



