THE GARDENERS 



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have a tendency t< 

 branches of equal sti 

 plants are long in 

 form it : and thev i 



and, presto, off dro: 



pride themselves, i 



T HOLDER and 



offer Twelve of < 



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Florist, Camb( 



Zht <8arlrewr<ef Chronicle* 



SATURDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1849. 



effect of deep j 



last week exemplified 



break off; the branch should be simply snapi 

 across, and allowed to hang downwards from 

 limb, retaining its vitality as long as it can. If 

 operation is performed skilfully, the broken end v 





knowledge. 





history we happened to havi 

 To us it appeared that some | 

 ie in the ground temperature j 



made in four years. Others, however, loving 

 jecture better than a search after truth, indulge in 

 the fond imagination that the growth described has 

 been in reality owing to some peculiar virtue ii 

 system of pruning. We can assure them that 

 are mistaken ; no occult processes have been 

 ployed ; no sylvan magic has been practised, 

 trees have not been pruned at all. 



>ols more formidable th£ 

 then raised ; and that 



"ppose that our words were to be interpreted 

 literally. Ther is no nil. without exceptions; 

 and the knife may no doubt be occasions 

 to aid the finger and thumb ; but such cases are 



prune, prune, prune; chop, chop, chop; saw, saw, 



is their alpha and omega ; v. 

 allow the finger and thumb no other va! 

 « a pair of pincers by which tools may be held 

 finnly m the grasp. 



» ny must forest trees be pruned % The common 

 reason, and the best reason, is, because 

 been neglected and ruined when young. 



nght to inquire, before such a reason 



DTer > a perfectly legitimate conclusion from this 

 * that, if they had not been neglected when 



Sti? V t y would not havc 



We admit that when planta- 

 ins have been allowed to fall into deca; 



advantages ; not, however, 

 » wten as is believed. It is probable 

 a many cases it would be 

 Plantations than to prune them ; the reason whereof 



g s reparations in the museum at Kew. 

 m , ut ^' n y must young forest trees be pruned 1 To 

 "«Ke them straight ; to make them grow fast ; to 

 8« ■» clean bole, is the n }j I j 



• of contradiction from oi 



reaches it, prevents the buds below from pushing 

 into laterals, and thus compels all the superfluous 



But it is pretended that trees will never become 

 straight-stemmed unless {hey are pruned well. In 

 reply to this dogma we humbly enquire in what way 

 the edge of a pruning-knife sliding over the surface 



• will 





■ ■ -'■ 

 •mselves if the 

 ntre of growth ; 



point; no pruning 



ming would.. rally may thow tha 



tbe pn ac ip a] current of sap in the main axis or 



centre, it straightens and stiffens as that sap con- 



a Sycamore, or a Lime ; all that is wanted is to keep 



■ a in tho centra, and ; 



Pruning to a bare pole does the first, no doubt, bi 

 it destroys the last. The most crooked trees may I 

 compelled to straighten by mere stopping, if th 

 operation is performed when they are young. Som 



Now that hones and whetstones are i 

 and knives are getting in order for the win 









