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thinned in their early summer growth, they do not prevent the 

 access of sufficient air and light to the fruit. When the most 

 kindly and well-budded shoots have been selected, shortened 

 to from 6 in. to 1 ft. 2 in. at a strong leaf bud, and all tied to 

 the trellis, the whole are gone over attentively, all the weakly 

 or wrong-placed flower buds are rubbed off, and none but 

 such as are strong and promising left. As soon as the fruit 

 are about the size of peas, the trees are sprinkled with water 

 on mornings; and, after the middle of March, they are 

 sprinkled in the afternoon, to keep the air of the house moist 

 during the night. The young wood for the next year's crop 

 is thinned out with great care, no shoot being left which 

 would unnecessarily crowd or uselessly encumber the trees. 

 Sprinkling twice a week is continued till the fruit begin to 

 swell off; but, soon after, it is discontinued, and a greater 

 quantity of fresh air admitted, to give flavour to the fruit. At 

 this time, too, fire-heat is dispensed with, unless the weather 

 is cold and damp. Fresh air is even given on nights, when 

 the weather permits. The fruit so treated is fine, and the 

 trees continue in good health. 



The sorts are the New Galande, and the Woodhall Nec- 

 tarine, a seedling formerly raised at Woodhall. The crop 

 begins to ripen about the middle of May, and continues till 

 about the 12th of July. 



Mr. Henderson adds, that he treats the peach trees on open 

 walls in the same way, only in the latter case he nails the 

 young shoots to the wall, in order to ripen them. 



In approving this successful (and excellent, because suc- 

 cessful) method of peach tree training, we cannot help noticing 

 the similarity of principle between the system of the writer 

 before us, and that of Mr. John Seymour, of Carleton Hall, as 

 well as the mother-branch training of the French gardeners, 

 all showing that the principle is good. — J. M. 



2. Remarks upon the Comparative Advantages of grafting Pears 

 upon Quince Stocks. By Thomas Torbron, F.H.S., Gardener to 

 the Countess of Bridgewater, at Ashridge. 



Working the best kinds of pears on quince stocks, as Mr. 

 Torbron truly says, is an old, though not a generally enough 

 adopted, custom. The effects of such a union is universally 

 known ; but no one, perhaps, could have imagined that the 

 difference in the fertility of quince and free stocks, could have 

 been so much as is shown by Mr. Torbron's comparison. In 

 a careful estimate of produce, by measure and tale, as well as 

 by space on the wall, he states that the Gansell's Bergamot, on 



