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vodueed from trees which, instead of being unsightly 





there will be found no difficulty in (Voiding upn 

 i ease, and the pruning of a hundred of such IVa 

 s would be only an amu-ement for a lady, with 



Mr Rivers, phi it tl m up to the ii.e. t , , 

 graft, mulch them, an! water di g nt!- from V- !. 

 nntil they are thoroughly established, and afterwa ' " 



October about the eighth of an inch 

 shoots have required shortening, an 

 been developed, "then 'the tree requires 



•B the shoots in July. ^ * D ° aDger "" shor * emn S 

 If the tree makes only a few inches of. wood, and the 

 tommal buds are blossom-buds, they are not to he 

 wortened, nor are the roots to be pruned. If the tree 

 ■ nd requires a shoot or two to 

 audit -ii tT deep notch over any dormant eye, 



*w win break next spring. 



J, shortening any shoot, consider whether you 

 Si K 6 the new 8hoot t0 be ri ? ht or left «>f the 

 £. • 8tl00t ' and cut to an eye accordingly ; but if the 

 J» « pretty well balanced, any shoot that is shortened 

 *°°1<1 have the last eye downwards, which has a ten- 



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«d fro™ "> t * hiRh ' or 7 feet at the utmost limit ' 

 'bich^ilhl^A ^ feet widoatthe broadest part, 

 *eil nrn^- 7 f00t t0 2 feet from the ground in a 

 SntoT -i tree ' aItho "g h the branches will 

 a 6 inches of the ground ; from the 

 ^ part it should taper regularly to the top. 

 Pns»Boon as this point of growth is attained, root- 



7.«>r a centurv 



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^«,tu^not ff ha Ct t ed ' ^ iS ' S ^ d ! * may ^ d ° ne i0 

 ^KrinV h * ee 3 ^* highland in «x or eight' 

 *Sorro ot /"^* C 5 eUent flavour, merely by transplant- 



^ ^^K d c'on P tr d d ed ^ meaQS 4lCh Pr °* 



Ihavelatelv.^ ." 



15 to 20 ,.,/, n a row of Pears on Quince stocks of 

 P^su^^^ffwftedlow, and another row 



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upward P^ner, the tree constan 



you m t° r naturall y> th « gardener sj 



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\ i carance of a kind of Brob- 1 



That these Bro! bdi 



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Brobdignags; but fruit is i ,; ,| ie 



e of the plant by an insect. Th< < 





by a small i 



These maggots or larvae have the posterior extremity oi 



" body furnished with a black shining scaly piece, 



at the head are to be observed two minute horny 



"hooks parallel to each other, capable of being protruded 



the front of the body, and acting 



:.... , , t i,e m:'. -•..:'.. ■ f the gall is detached 



-.. food of the insect. 



ras even believed that they were efficacious against 

 „, v curative powers being ascribed not so much to the 

 gall itself as to the little white bra inclosed in it. It 

 was, however, necessary that the galls should be 

 gathered on the 16th day of October in each year. 

 Tiese larva having remained for a long period pre- 



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