THE MAGAZINE 



OF 



HORTICULTURE 



AUGUST, 1844. 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



Art. I. Additional remarks on Root-pruning Pear Trees; 

 with an engraving illustrating the subject. By T. Riv- 

 ers, Jr., Sawbridgeworth, Eng. Extracted from the 

 Supplement to his Catalogue of Pears. By the Editor. 



Two years ago (Vol. VIII., p. 210), we copied, entire, the 

 Treatise of Mr. Rivers on root-pruning trees. Great inter- 

 est was created among the amateur and practical cultivators 

 of England, relative to this improved mode of bringing 

 trees more speedily into a bearing state, and adapting them 

 to the wants and purposes of garden culture ; and many 

 experiments were put into operation to test its merits. The 

 results, so far, have been, we believe, highly satisfactory, 

 and show that the advantages to be derived from the gene- 

 ral introduction of the system, are fully as great as stated 

 by Mr. Rivers in his pamphlet. 



Since its publication in 1842, further experience has ena- 

 bled him to add some additional information, which he has 

 embodied in a supplement to his catalogue of pears, and 

 has illustrated the system by an engraving of a root-pruned 

 tree : he has also represented the three common modes of 

 training, viz. conical, pyramidal and en quenouille. 



We are glad to see the interest with which many of our 

 amateur fruit growers have entered into the cultivation of 

 dwarf pear trees; the results of their experiments, if dic- 

 tated by judgment, cannot but be satisfactory. Too much, 

 however, must not be expected at once, or without some 

 labor. Mr. Rivers has been at work fifteen or twenty 

 years, and is thoroughly conversant with the details of the 



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