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and by allowing them two or three years' training 

 before removal becomes necessary, you either have 

 an estimable and long remembered present for a 

 friend, or you have a tree that may keep its place, 

 in preference to some one of inferior quality, and 

 which has offended you by not answering to the 

 tally of your nurseryman. And as this last is an 

 inconvenience not unfrequent, it suggests the need 

 of acquiring the easy and pleasant art of inserting 

 a twig of a name and nature certainly known. 

 Should a summer codling set up its face on your 

 best wall, or a white hawthornden which had better 

 be left to its early canker in the orchard than in a 

 place where every branch receives pains and has a 

 permanent destination to fulfil it is important 

 either to have a well advanced tree ready to sup- 

 plant the interloper, or to have the art of lopping 

 off the unworthy branches, to be substituted by new 

 shoots of your own inserting, in such a way as to 

 incur the least loss of time, and to make sure of 

 the fruit which you wish to cultivate. A note to 

 this effect will be give in the sequel. 



In the mean time, to finish our observations on 

 the wall department, the following list of trees may 

 be added for giving scope to make selection accor- 

 ding to our dimensions, and for preventing such 

 planters as may not know the quality by the mere 

 name of the tree from rearing on a wall such fruits 

 as are not worthy of that preferment. 



