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the Caledonian Horticultural Society; and we may be permitted 

 to observe, that this figure, with some others in their Memoirs, 

 are not very creditable to their pictorial taste. We may add, 

 en passant, that there can be no reason worth listening to for 

 giving copperplate engravings in such a volume as that now 

 before us. The map of the garden might have been reduced, 

 and given with the references on two opposite pages. We 

 repeat (p. 43.) that, where engravings are not to be coloured, 

 and where aerial perspective is not essential to illustration, 

 there is not one case in a hundred in which wood-cuts in 

 the body of the text will not be found incomparably superior 

 to separated figures or plans. 



In Dumoutier , s method, the pruning for fruit commences in 

 the third year, and is thus performed : — The lateral shoots are 

 cut back to a single eye, together with all other shoots which 

 have no fruit buds, and at the same time are feeble. When a 

 shoot promises blossom, it is generally at some distance from 

 the point of insertion into the old wood, and the intermediate 

 space is covered by wood buds. All the latter, therefore, 

 which are between the old wood {Jig. 26. a) and the blos- 

 som {c\ except the lowest(6), are carefully 

 removed by ebourgeonnement. This never 

 fails to produce a shoot, the growth of 

 which is favoured by destroying the 

 useless spray above the blossoms, and 

 pinching off the points of those which 

 are necessary to perfect the fruit. This 

 is termed the bourgeon de replacement. Barren shoots, when 

 too vigorous to be cut down to their lowest eye, are treated 

 exactly in the same manner. At the winter pruning, the 

 branches which have borne fruit are cut down to the insertion 

 of the replacing shoots, which, in their turn, are ebourgeonnee, 

 bear fruit, and are cut out like their predecessors. In cases 

 where the blossom has failed in setting, or the fruit in stoning, 

 when the shoot is too weak to ripen the fruit which are upon 

 it, or when the crop is very early, this operation may be per- 

 formed at any period in the course of the summer : it is then 

 called reprochement a vert. Occasionally a very promising 

 shoot, which has already fruited, is suffered to remain. The 

 replacing shoot is cut back to its lowest eye, or, if it is vigo- 

 rous, and there is room, it is made in the usual way to pro- 

 duce a substitute. In either case, a new replacing shoot is 

 obtained, to which the whole is invariably shortened at the 

 end of the second year. The branch thus treated is styled the 

 branche de reserve," 



