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THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. 
[N° 49. 
greenhouse s into waaay 1, for one, anticipated a revolu- 
tion a ee i 
nothing less than regi 
a ory in every inhabited 
It tis needless i say r that ‘his has not happe 
ned. 
a on houses, and expected | I arrived at Seki, Lincolnshire, as gi 
late L 
om contain anything more than a few Ferns 
ehich, tomer See want variety; and I find ma ny 
of those who once tend them throwing away their 
playing or pest beer plants to die 
The Ons 
at least t why t this so often #8 
pens. ether rt can place, the glass of these little house 
is often cov ered wi ith d the interior, so a rps is im- 
ie which they contain the 
next place, there is no means of raising their tempera ure 
in winter if, as usually is the case, they contain plants 
impatient of cold. A third reason is oe bag shag ng meri 
it becom as is alm 
| beste gay at a great expense, and - 
t :—About the middle of June 1800, 
the following statemen' 
ardener to the 
_ The first year after the operation I had = Secret 
ord Yarborough. At that a canal season I found to 15 inches long, without any thick, curled lea The 
the Peach-trees in a deplorable state, with scarcely any | first shoots and leaves that were made were ree “ibaa 
leaves upon them, few branches, ys bee little fruit’ the | as previously, but continued healthy all through the spring 
all r dise: and | and summer, ripening their wood early in the 
ee after shrivelled up and feil Tees orn re 
of. 
very old—about 30 years, vag be extliilcl over a fine 
wall without flues. e ‘site the garden was very un- 
favourable, a worse could not been found near t 
man h reviously to its 
3 for it was bot low and wet. 
the 
cover a great part t of it thro ugh 
brought in for ‘But a 
the cae could not be essentially pastas ed, 
ill effects upon vegetables and tender fruit-trees cate 
when s too. damp, 
ease except in vay 
because the cases are closed up, and it is dese oie to 
open them. 
Some ladies of my acquaintance, who, I presume, had 
themselves he ee these inconveniences, have hit 
upon genious plan by which th mf are obviated, and 
Fission I am enabled to explain it to the 
dri ed ; 
bnes ae cut gives 
averte: exhala tion 
1 
d in an atmospher e so damp from the 
when sunny days and frosty nights are so prevale ent. 
rurt- tree borders had been well made 
od wi was earlier than usu: ap aes weeks, 
OU wall, 
pypasveam moses year tan the operation ; we had plenty 
rm re fruit, early and well flavoured. I did not think so 
uch of finely-t eae trees, pruned, a nd nailed ae 
ja the Fale s of the well covered j 
the mf when the. priciest expects to find something 
more substantial than a smart netprate ; I trained the 
young shoo ts i n any direction a d lay them ™m in, SO as 
to cover the bare spaces; for he trees are in full 
leaf, and covered with well- favoured ful the proprietor 
seldom inquires how the trees a ned. 
th 
fter s I had more ade and Apricots 
large and well- p Bese than could be well consumed by 
the family, including the steward’s room, which w often 
who had been in the fam ily ever since the garden was 
—_ ng isa all said they never had such plenty of 
co 
make efforts in fis spring of each year to produce 
t when the cold weather acy ety in A 
fro: 
be entiated and may be heated like “an as orm hot- 
f a stout mahogany box, 
pose upper half of which has panes of glass let into its 
sides, on which a moveable ese cake fike a hand-glass, 
hg “est , and in the bottom of which slides a pee box 
r, which may comnts ot water; an o elf 
is fixed pees the latter, a which _pots may be 
the 
plac ed. 
glass roof are doo 
inside. or for any other purpose. 
warm wea copper r drawer is not used ; but in cold 
weather it is “filled with hot arse night and mo By 
this nce tender pl: have been preserved upon 
a lan pe th ‘a through the winter. 
S$ peat under 
ach a contrivance may 
which to preserve plants in a aaibine: e 
usage savantazeonsly bBo those mo Possess a green- 
o be 
pril, 
May, and Jun th easterly winds and t, the leaves 
aie diseased and curled, and were ei! ulle d off or 
r 
other kinds of fruit- 
si pile Pears, with the same success; and I also 
planted a great | number of young fruit- trees of various 
kinds vn repared bottoms, 
too deep i in such an unfavourable — 
wae’ “nearly 
e can red, 2 
’ 
+e 
0a eeeat de pth, the trees would make fresh efforts — 
throw out plenty of strong luxuriant shoots. 
T ‘co ont! tinued in his vordlohin” s service, ae 
a 
table. Had 
tended ee the roots had extended over those prepared 
ae 
a a autumnal frosts would set in before such | 
ood was half matured, so at during the winter and 
rt of sae 
a 
and the remainder had no time to make strong flow 
bud: And thus, season after season, there was athe 
but disappointm notwithstanding an immense ex- 
s naked and unsightly, 
d th ¢ 
ihe se amna Coane which were from fur 0 five feet 
ripe ed the dwarf trees in the bord 
ab 
the walks, and 
s 
garden, so as to have long roots to spread h 
when I fina! ally planted them out on the picateny bottoms, 
hou in w seeds a raised or | without fruit, or with luxuriant or cankere! d. 
euitin aes ait b Instead of rooting out these sickly trees and planti 
It been iol that its. -appearance would b t places that I mig cg the pleasure 
much pstgicthenk it were furnished of planting ie training my 0 ler my own 
with two wings ‘ide 
seedlings and newly-rooted | m 
pores might be transferred; but these are matters of 
taste, which = require explanation.— —T. T. 
Fig. 1 Fig. 2. aff 
. Fig. 1.— ‘A view of the portable greenhouse: a, saikter 
er, furnished wil with a cock, which serves as s handle. and at | © 
for turning off the water 
the copper 
[vince sparc when cold; dd, 
box, hollowed out 
d furnished at in- 
fe casenacd 
drawer through whic! 
means of a moveable funnel; e, the drawer itself. N. 
generally be useful to place moss between ides 
ROOT-PRUNING, SHALLOW-PLANTING, A 
ment, knowing it would ind roting years before 
there “arm = fruit from — trees, st — induced 2 
what I could do to bring the ing trees 
pacierdber wine andes ari te 
bear a lal fruit till young a es D 
te, between the old o ba nearly all — old Peaches 
mes were desti of young wood half the 
} height of tg 
Ear es > the autumn of the year 1800 I began with 
what I termed RAISING THE ROOTS (not * peepee - 
ing’’) f Peaches a: pticots, for the latter were 
in as unfruitful a state as the othe freak same 
cause. The method I devised was as follows :—First, 
by digging out a trench at from 4 to 5 feet from the stem 
f the tree, = al feet wide, fo the roots 
which were at the bottom of the soil near 
below the surface This had been caused by planting too 
deep at first, 1 the borders deep, whi 
forced the r th t ce; _ 
m diseased or 
to within 18 or "20 rbd of the we “(ot course 
root-pruning, for I cut them all off to that eitides)), 
90 we oye them npr and bent them backwards, if not 
too strong, or held them out in 
the opertion "of "clearing the roots was returned into the 
hole, s of the surface, treading 
he materials of which the p repare red bot ere 
PR it Pen prs mA backice bricks, by or ta 
and slags from the e furnaces or fire- pla ces, 8, with 
lime crops or rriddl ton over 
= 
: f go foe 
ver — and elevated a vaio’ in a — to aa 
ine 
This ee was conceived by me 41 years ago, V when 
the science of horticulture 
0 that I could. not have deri 
16 years since. How P y the y 
t th tion, or karan 
me my es 
tion, it is not for me to inquire. Here, it is evident, is 
shallow plactings and keeping 
the roots of “sagt trees near the surface of the ground, 
which has bee — T think Lesy 
d ju udgm 
f 4h Per 
merit; at vie st it will pues me your opi nion, and ma 
ae others in similar igruacre and rapegeyat 
to adopt it, unless, indeed, it should be doome dt 
nd a. fate as my system of pruning f forest- tees, i 
ints ears with ie. the merit ‘has since ‘been noe tat = 
a Mr. Cree, who has written about it since. However, 
that | is of little consequence to me now, at’my time of ee 
only I think ni but just the truth and real facts of bot! 
cases should own. 
How the tree: “i continued to paaseyere Brockle: 
brews the year I left T never d 
was gt after s seeing so much Le emeevpe Chro- 
sby since 
ND 
KEEPING THE ROOTS OF FRUIT- 
NEAR THE SUR FA: ACE. TREES 
dete han I intended. hen carefully replaced the 
oot ‘upon the soil, paitea ch Fats with the remainder, 
s ki 
Chr » part eealarly in page 734, he 
Mr. prides cae “thet it is called ae fe eas 
or manure of any kind. 
When finished, the Cae tani from about nin 
thre e feel 
tem, bat himself claims to be bond Rik 
> 
Ma 
of 
Rast a * 
rt 
J 
Tose th f the extremities 
eH t bg 
in ear 
Now r “think I may claim a ‘ied port in ths matte 
if it may be e terme dan in- 
vention ; a it was the result of my own 
very you havi aa heard or read of anything 
after the operation than where they issued from the collar 
of the root ; ; for we could not raise that part so high. My 
sila hat root-pruning, to w e present Pekawt 
there ; he inform aaa ve most ro the ae Beache — 
Apricots are i he same state as w best oe re; 
1 $00, he ae 
are 50 oer i se whose roots I sail oa ted o - 
pears bottoms. He — that he will adopt 2 a ae 
n the autumn of this yeai 
could give no information about the 
pears there have eyes several gardener 
the garden, since I left.— Vm. Billing 
other trees, as it ap 
et aaa ations 2 
y Dg 
similar elses. nor since 
In the year 1800, 41 sd since, I practised it upon 
th all the 
ti 1 lifting them Up, § and I left 
I hall 
ey extensive scale, wit : Withee: Uiditerted but 7 took good care to hollow it well under, | winte os he rset much in the garden ; but when it cm cn 
a else has. Tk ab. y) be favourable, advantage should be taken of it Sa 
ecount of it in 1825—five years previously to ree ay —_ in a horizontal | ward any operations that wer ommended to b Gall 
ton—in work on the management of young postion If too strong to ben as some of them | last month, and could not then be attended to; — it 2 
s, entitled “* Facts, Hints, &c. y W. Bil- | were, I cut them entirely off, i tT prefe erred raising them | the manuring and digging of vacant ground, aie ae 
if there “tes fe one 1 sea 2p, vit —_ e, with a extinction fre to the sur- | now desirable to have completed - early as a _ is 
ees ny merit in i ope I may claim a event t their making fr fre sh ro ts down wards ; stead oe deferrin es until spring. Continue als 
Atleant it to me probab ft iat eed and train fruit- ae oem directed; or in the the 
ices t sesso as I could, conceiving it more  enotedal _to ‘the we 2 now nes ra panibe; which is the mode $0 sot 
my publication, as ther iliac trees - fruit. Afterwards I never suffered the lowed the French and Dutch, and i aad 
eho nik oe I ao as those aire : to be dug above half a sp sp it deep, my main ~— being to oo a suited for Dwarf P — Apples “6 ei 
oe amy ays I beg | of cuttin ng OU 7 og Binegene stem, it is = is b 7 
et did e end of the et seas t plete 
formerly a its rabacting | in Gee opera’ ength as may poof oz necessary, with the ate o 
. : tu _ nay ac oF of bet to coms T purs ton er fo nm we ‘all the Peaches and Aprico it to throw out a number ra a a aro eo art ar 
: ere bes _— a but not i on, because it-was nly = an “experiment _ The — wing autum Se ake 
print, “that few will ever see it ae = ome of the trees done in manner | to be shortened to two or ret bal ms the ea 
In chap.11, + large, Penick neues cca avis ted in the same way a8 ag before. 
