UPON THE PROPAGATION OF THE WALNUT-TREE. 233 



and I have never seen an instance in which any of such buds have 

 broken and vegetated during the summer or autumn ; but when I have 

 had occasion to reverse this process, and to insert immature buds 

 from the open wall into the branches of trees growing in a peach-house, 

 many of these, and in some seasons all, have broken soon after being 

 inserted, though at the period of their insertion the trees in the peach- 

 house had nearly ceased to grow. The result was, in both the pre- 

 ceding cases, in opposition to my expectations ; but it appears neces- 

 sarily to have been occasioned by the mature bud having naturally 

 sunk into a state of repose preparatory to its long winter sleep, pre- 

 viously to its having been removed ; and by the more excitable state 

 of the powers of life in the bud taken from the open wall. 



If the mature buds of the peach-tree, when taken from the forcing- 

 house, contain blossoms, these may be carried a great distance, and 

 still afford fruit in the following spring. I have thus readily obtained 

 fruit from blossoms sent me from the vicinity of London ; and I entertain 

 no doubt of the practicability of obtaining fruit from blossoms sent 

 from Paris, or even from the south of France, if properly packed. In 

 such cases it w r ould be necessary to pare the wood of the bud thin, 

 instead of wholly extracting it : and this will sometimes be found 

 expedient, when buds are to be taken from a peach-house, in which 

 the fruit has been made to ripen early in the summer, to be inserted 

 in the open air. 



XXXVII. UPON THE PRUNING AND MANAGEMENT OF TRANSPLANTED 



STANDARD TREES. 



[Read before the HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY, June 2nd, 1818.] 



WHEN a tree is transplanted, it loses, almost necessarily, a considerable 

 part of its roots : and as these, in every healthy subject, are nicely pro- 

 portioned to the branches, the advantages of retrenching the latter are 

 obvious, and well known to every gardener. But relatively to the mode 

 of retrenching the branches, and the extent of retrenchment that is 

 beneficial, there is much discordance in the opinions and practice of 

 different gardeners ; and often still more between the gardener and his 

 employer ; the latter wishing to preserve the bearing branches, that he 

 may, at an early period, obtain a crop of fruit ; and the gardener wishing 

 to head down the tree, that- he may see it shoot with vigour. Neither 



