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Training en quenouille, or distaff fashion, is very little different from what 

 among gardeners is called spurring in ; that is, shortening all the side shoots of 

 the main or leading shoot, so as their bases may form \ 97 



bearing spurs (Jig. 98. g). Choose a tree that has a lead- 

 ing shoot in an upright direction (Jig. 97. a) ; having plant- 

 ed it, shorten the side shoot, leaving only two or three 

 buds, and the leading shoot according to its strength (6), so 

 that every bud may produce a shoot. 



The first summer, if the plant is vigorous (Jig. 98. c), 

 the leading shoot may be shortened (d>, by which opera- 

 tion it will throw out shoots from the young wood (,). 



At the winter pruning, all the side shoots may be shortened to two or three 

 buds, and the leading shoot to such a number as it is believed will push (f). 

 This process is to be repeated every year, till the tree attains the height required, 



or that which is natural to it. In cutting in the side shoots, 

 the spurs at the base are' every year allowed to protrude a little 

 farther, so that at twelve or fifteen years' growth, the tree will 

 present the appearance of a narrow cone or distaff. The use of 

 shortening the leading stem, is to get it regularly clothed with 

 spurs (g). 



With respect to instructions for pruning fruit trees in general, 

 we hope some of our correspondents will enable us to fulfil the 

 wishes of G. P. In the mean time, we would recommend to 

 him Harrison's Treatise on Fruit Trees, 1 vol, 8vo Cond. 



Rosa Grevilli'i. — " Goldworth Nurs ry near Woking. — Dear Sir ; You will 

 no doubt recollect the shoot I showed you of my Greville rose, which grew 

 eighteen feet in a few weeks. It is now in bloom , and is the most singular 

 curiosity of all the rose tribe that has come under my observation ; it grows on 

 an E. by N. aspect, on the gable end of my house, covering above 100 feet 

 square, with more than a hundred trusses of bloom. Some of them have more 

 than fifty buds in a cluster, and the whole will average about thirty in a truss, so 

 that the amount of flower buds is little if any short of 3000. But the most 

 astonishing curiosity is the variety of colours produced on the buds at first opening. 

 White, light blush, deeper blush, light red, darker red, scarlet, and purple — all 

 on the same clusters. As my Greville rose is the only one I have seen in bloom, I 

 should be glad to know through your valuable Gardener's Magazine, whether the 

 above are the characters of the rose generally, or whether mine is a singular or 

 new variety. I am, Dear Sir, &c. 



" R. Donald." 



A box of flowers sent us by Mr. Donald, were unquestionably those of the true R. 

 multiflora var. Grevillii, which is easily known by the fringed edge of the leaf-stalk, 

 {Jig. 99. a), while those of the common multiflora have much less fringe, and 



