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respect. A really good form of the Parsley Leaved Bramble cannot 

 be beaten, but apart from this selected wildings are the things to 

 choose. Planted in deeply dug and generously manured ground in 

 November, watered with liquid manure freely after perfect establish- 

 ment, and mulched with good manure each winter, they will thrive 

 and crop grandly for years. Practically the only attention demanded 

 in the way of cutting is to remove all old shoots for which there is 

 not room after the fruit is gathered. 



Morello Cherry 



Q. Is this a profitable fruit to grow on walls 1 E. W., Hendon. 



A . The Morello Cherry is valuable for covering the walls of cottages, 

 on which it hardly ever fails to produce good crops. It will thrive 

 on a wall facing north. The fruits sell well, as they come in after 

 the glut of other fruit is over. This Cherry grows and produces well 

 on any aspect, and the simplest kind of training suits it best. Plant 

 healthy, fan-trained trees, and let them spread out evenly in all 

 directions. Keep them clean during the growing season by dusting 

 with tobacco powder or syringing with tobacco water, dipping 

 the points of the young shoots into the mixture. Cover with nets to 

 keep off birds, so as to let the fruits get fully ripe. In winter cut out 

 weakly and exhausted fruit, and nail in the young shoots of the pre- 

 ceding summer's growth full length, as the Morello bears the finest 

 fruit on the young wood. 



Pruning Roots of Pear Trees 



Q. I should like your advice about two Pear trees which I have. 

 They are wall trees facing west and south-west, very vigorous, and 

 plenty of bloom every year and set fruits, but when these get about 

 the size of Peas they fall off. Every year this happens I get no 

 fruit. This has been going on for nine years. They always bloom 

 the second time each season, and seeing your article on root pruning 

 1 thought I would try the operation. I took out a trench 2 feet 

 deep, about 3 feet away from the stem, half way round the tree, but 

 could not find any roots to prune ; the roots seem to strike down 

 into the subsoil close to the wall. I could not find any short fibrous 

 roots near the surface at all. If you could advise me on the subject 

 I should feel grateful. 8. C\, Devonport. 



A. We are rather surprised you did not find any roots after dig- 

 ging 2 feet deep at 3 feet from the stem of a tree nine years old- 

 Possibly they have gone under the wall to the other side. If you 



