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as the Mazzard cherry. They will never make such large 

 trees, however-, and those who would enjoy dwarf cherry 

 trees, should combine the different methods of producing 

 the result. 



BY PINCHING. There are other means of producing the 

 desired effects of dwarfing and early fruiting, which should 

 be mentioned. These consist in systematic efforts to cur- 

 tail the development of the wood-growth, by judicious 

 pinching, of the tips or points of the branches, and to pre- 

 vent the rambling of the roots by root-pruning. These it 

 is designed now to examine. Pinching is practiced in the 

 green-house with the happiest effects, and it results in the 

 production of the most perfect form of the plants, and 

 most abundant display of flowers. The constant check 

 which is thus given to the wood system, causes the sap to 

 seek new outlets, and instead of the one Hmb into which 

 it had been flowing, and causing it to be developed ; its 

 flow is now directed to the other buds along its course, 

 which presently burst out into lateral growths, none of 

 which are so strong as the first, and these are induced to 

 change the character of the buds so as to result in thq 

 production of flowers and fruit. 



This system applied to fruit-trees has been most thor- 

 oughly carried out by the French, and is admirably de- 

 scribed and illustrated by Du Breuil, in a work .called 

 Scientific Culture of Fruit Trees^ and reproduced in our 

 own language by Wm. Wardle, an English gardener and 

 orchardist of high reputation. 



It is not to be expected that in this country, where fruits 

 are so easily produced, we shall soon reach such a point 

 of horticultural practice as to lead us to the adoption of 



