THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE 



[June 



The moat certain is the withdrawn* from them as hat wh 

 much as possible the over- 

 Plants suffering from excess of vigour are generally to no den, 

 i_ r n »~A „„ ii.k «n^ Hopr. so Is. Wh»n thp B « are I would : 



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| ,vof the branches. In most 

 cases, however, this method is too costly, • 



| fa execution to be put in v-r 

 times the effect may be produced by BM 

 roots with a hoe for a given time, when the tree does 



n too clayey a soil, or simply by lightening 



The above remedies are specially applicable to 

 tearing** greater length to the upper branches. Many 



as to'force tbcTaap into the frnit-bearing i 

 no out, the upper ones must be !] 



they'canbTinl a TreeTnto bearing by depriving it of the 

 greater part of its branches, we should have nothing 

 but an increased number of barren shooN. 

 itself, tormented by over-pruning, would only perish 

 Some of' the most experienced cultivators force trees 

 to bear by flaying the pruning them till they have 

 shot out all their branches for the year, at the close of 

 spring thinning out a moiety of these young branches. 

 In general everything which tends to abet 

 «,« » n » of use. Thus for trees on espaliers, the 



t. Sometimes this malady particularly affects fruit 



'stocks, but trained for dwarfs. In this case the 

 •* difficult. There seems to be but one course ; 



till they begin to Bhow for fruit 

 moved to their permanent stati 



"r. re TheymJe ia the stem 



scarification*" 





prac X tised en e C ye can easily detect, and then by means 

 ery auxiliary to development, we reach some point 



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,,| a ,,t. l-..r«l... shall dare, in the face of the rapid ad^ 

 on which are every day exhibited 



—I say who shall dare to set limits to the ca 

 Human ideas upon any gi 



id ■ only operations that are necessary in ( 1 J Mff,,tt *» 

 t-jplish the highest degree of floral deveuT * ***■ 



and little bloom shouldbT IS 

 ^ of the garden w place, Jj; 



ort, Then as growth advances, training and thuinia, I 



the shoots must be attended to, not only as regarTS* 



ces dual plants scattered over borders, bS\faS 



3 tern*. This Tmportant^item ^JT^ * 



large Gooseberries ot Lancashire, allowed to p™^ 

 but unaided by artificial means. The eager e& 

 him fineTbteoms he tries" the °ex ' ^ Se ' bnda ** 

 things, and is equally successful. HfcTai m Jhi/S 

 tivation, fine flowers, and delicious fruit ; he ttna 



grown BMCimena? InThe* former"case we'have to follow succeeds. Every plant under his care, from'aYbk 



nature retrogressively, if I may so term it. We have to a Pine-apple, owns his power and yields to it • ■*-* 



to cramp and confine her efforts within a prescribed ing and watering 



limit, to thwart her designs, and withal to preserve Our "wits" must be brought 



health. In the latter case we may possibly have to tion with the knife, and a litl 



appeared to me that there is a greater 



jssfully treating a miscellaneous col- 

 than in producing large and well- 



ig up, while he recognises no rule in mat 



time of his applications, he must pursue his labou 



systematically. The system of his operations must be 



progressive working out of a preconceived arrangemer 



No matter how we intend to develope a plant, wheth 





irely realised. plant which we intend to develope ; the native countr; 



and influence; am 



so as to penetrate through Jthe wb< », we must have son; 



bark to the wood. Let these incisions be 2 or 3 inches j knowledge of the climatic relations in heat, moisture, an 

 long, 5 or 6 inches apart, and always opposite to each I atmospheric phenomena, and, of their influence o 

 other. Round these wounds callosities are formed, j vegetation ; not only their natural influence in the get 

 which intercept in a great measure the sap ; a smaller graphical distribution of plants, but also in their art 



are not gummy, such as Apples, Pears, and such like 

 L^'Sun^PeacS 



It is even better not to have recourse to scarificatio 



autumn, and from thence to the beginning of sprinj 

 except in the case of a severe winter. This applies t 



it in spring. Insect* introduce themselves very readily 

 into these wounds and cause much injury ; they must 

 be kept away from them. The best mode i 

 the surrounding parts with a 

 must be paid to the makio- I 



order that the sap, being forced into an oblique directior 

 very fine Apple-tree, but it was barren and doomed t 

 be cut down. By accident he made in the autum 

 some incisions into the bark with his axe In tn 



tween failure and success there is often but a mere little weak liquid manure now and then. T ^^ 

 we*ffor f Mno7to^ ^ n , b . e destroy greenfly, which ab oj™J J Citable ho* 



ampmamm oi nranciies, the ab- 



,rk, andcauteriyu 

 im remedies to the disease now treated of, but as they 

 axe more frequently employed for other 

 refer to what 1 s b^uy herea fter on the gubjwt, ' 



0N ™ivS 0N[jInuN * Ks-l.NTIAL TO THE 



MOSTPEJ .-No. VII. 



*5^J?SSL».I*«> be , «PP'°P^ely 



. lining a much longer bloom will be secured; mi 



beyond a doubt, not only flowers, but fruit of superior 

 quality will be the result Fharo. 



HINTS TO FLORISTS. 



Pisks.— The propagation of these had better be pro- 

 imenee with the scarce varieties, seb 

 „s CnterH.il, X X , Jenny Lind (Read's), Lam, 

 Harkforward, the Hon. Mrs. Herbert, Mr. Ed-ark 

 Norborough Buck, Morning Star, Bob Tickler, it. ; 

 and by the time the general collection shall fate ha 

 gone through, the plants first operated upon wulU 

 —educing a good second crop of Grass, which in a* 



e may be cut and again propagal 



who finds himself in possession of a goodly stocky 



nts in his store or nursery beds from which to aetoJ 



seaIon°viz* Blackheath Rival, Diana, Great Brig 

 I! met, I i«I\ M hi iy, Lord Valenta, Master?** 

 lgland, Rubens, Omega, and Warden of Wincherfer 

 Tulips.— Generally speaking these may now* 

 .red. The cabinet in which they are kep Jo* 



tnted for want of moisl 



,plendid m 



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