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ing, you may, at no expense, raise on these vacant 

 spaces a few young trees of superior value ; and by 

 allowing them two or three years' training before 

 removal becomes necessary, you either have an esti- 

 mable 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 plea- 

 sant 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 fulfill it is 

 important either to have a well advanced tree ready 

 to supplant the interloper, or to have the art of lop- 

 ping off the unworthy branches, to be substituted by 

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

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

 the fruit which you wish to cultivate. A note to 

 this effect will be given 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 accord- 

 ing to your 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. 



