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and training quick 
rage 
to injure the ervey shoots. 
a) orns, y planted at 4 in. apart, so ; 
that a bird will not ald in it. When the hedge hal 
reac its fa 
hed its full height, trim it level at the top, and keep 
the sides cut, so as to allow no part to_ overhang another, 
é practice ” hedges, etly so much in 
i er 
from the 
bo 
for little. — 
Knight's Monarch Pear.—I am inclined, are I~ ot 
cription of the Monarch Pear given in p. 109, to 
a hard, worthless, green —keeping well, it is true 
even till May or June, tit 8 even ao ae and valueless, 
The 
On ingui uiring of Mr, Thom oe ome. two or three year: 
since about it, he informed oth r. Knight had thet 
found ont the mistake, his ipubdanee havin taken grafts 
rom the wro e to the Soci t that grafts 
of the true sort had since been re kind I 
had one small ue and the plants I have he sed 
j pte vip a from those before mentioned, no 
de- 
ear, which 
Net which eter ‘test 
If the circumstance that I fore ercee —G 
iS tnene of y ill 
ht pds of the Mango.—When I first came to 
the of the Earl of Powis, there was 4 fine 
ed the largest plant that frvited annually 
re were others w 
t, 
stock of Matix 
fee 
ango does not require bottom - 
here kept plunged in old tan to 
of ture or moisture to the roots as ae are soon 
injured, not being strong-rooting plan used 
for het was well-rotted turf and iat mould i in etnanl parts 
ith a little sand and rotten manure. e*plants, when 
ina prowhig state, were wate red with man 
I ave seen 
il 
_ 
to fail. They wither in a day, with 
vious —_ of ill health owing, I think, t 
stock being in ed state where the « scion was put, 
I be- 
liar mode s heated. 
= —. apical lant that fuiiod 80 well here, but many 
did a among which were Codkia plas 
Ps Custard ane “‘Gaman: Eugénia Jambos, an 
Root-prun ing V' no one has complied with 
Mr. Dunean’s guest at at “¢ 38 ete» I beg * i you 
the result of my ae oe -prun vag tee ld Vines 
had y pals 
icon x dues Se btw te Gite tree Tai rdeg that, in 
Hite Soucy, a and ae oy ese 
could nd ie e detected till the a a cata 
+ e trees fruited 
not allow the subject of Cotta; 
ithout stggesting the expediency of en 
kept; for the former are, 
ew 
baat tein Si in its bearings ; and 
neat throw x ot ‘dese hints for Ae; consideration of the 
oem peed ib Ga so, I 
one fair trial of eng ‘one dust, eri 
pnb Asay By rhee poet 
to “ 
them, and oar hele fiw sf never previously the use of 
tat as Dewey bh 
the details given in 
papers by broths os who have no motive in m misstating 
and the mw in every case to 
tisfact. m corobora appears to have we sa- 
‘ pe miter. 
sential 
adept | on grass lands, guano 
tance have tried it in ‘a ecalivation ae 
ts" flower 
arter 
m myself pig fs to use os 
and 
ta oaltvstion of Dablias, Carnations 
sies, and shall forward ue poanvedery x 
part iniles & 
and in the pans of Wheat 3 areart uy pe Tore 
been forced and the fruit all cut. foots ad- 
m in nthe house befo 
re grown 
borders are Sonsiderabiy ie but 
ds on the situation.— Vitis. 
Borders.—The utility 
discussed in the 
“‘ Forcing and Fruit Gardener,” 
4th edition,” i", "So much for 
wan ee PAN the originality of the 
suggest, in all cases practicable, 
be lifted at the time the: Oa root taaes mas ae 
operator will then see more clearly what he is dldig: | — 
In large specimens, where this may be considered im: mprac- 
ticable, cutting all round so many feet from the stem, and 
filling up with fresh soil, will check the vi cour éf an 
tree, and tend to the forma tion of yet nds How es 
Laren — doctrine, the system is fou 
ong—namely, re of rich deep border and d 
wo 
“a 
another about one fi 
very fifteen or twenty feet. Instead of planting in the 
soil, spread the roots on the to the border, and cover 
m from three to four inches; this will for 
rarely ill e ite + earan 
spade should nde least feet of t 
stems; but break the surface of the soil, and this frequently, 
with a three-pronged fo e free admission of 
and air to the roots, this space of four feet should never 
ave an Waid except as mulching, to protect from frost 
or drou Supposing the evap of borders from 
feet for cro 
ta x 
po 
separated, by the wciintce the wae in the 
ice: adhesive soils are most i faba 
oose soil is also 
Pp ?-y 
verted io the importance o culture as a na 
and the correction of the improper ie a 
tices that @ still persis management of many — 
of the p it 
last month fell very gently upon the shrubs in 
his part of the country, which gav' usual a 
arance ; the Scotch firs in particul alarge — 
share of it, and their strength was pretty well tried with the 
over, many of them ha 
old solitary See pr tid eig ‘y and pinety. ant old, hi 
ny Ther t be some rea- 
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such treatment, as the 
