322 Protecting Blossoms of Fruit Trees. 



do not recollect to have received any of the former, and but 

 one quarto pamphlet, containing a printed letter addressed to 

 us, which we shall answer through the same source. As some 

 of our correspondents in America seem to think that we are 

 in the nursery business, we think it right to inform them that 

 this is not the case, and that therefore we are not the fittest 

 persons either to send grafts to, or to receive them from. We 

 recommend Mr. Charlwood, of Covent Garden Market, for 

 this purpose, in preference to all others ; he having been in 

 America, and being in constant correspondence with Messrs. 

 Thorburn of New York. Most willingly should we under- 

 take to collect and send off cuttings to our American friends, 

 did our time permit, or were our means adequate to the main- 

 tenance of a sufficient number of assistants to effect this, and 

 various other objects connected with America, in which we 

 take a deep interest : but our case cannot be bettered in this 

 respect ; though some future editor of the Gardener's Maga- 

 zine may be differently circumstanced. To be able to live at 

 all, in this countiy, is too engrossing a business, to allow of 

 much else occupying the time than the means by which we 

 get our daily bread. 



We can only promise one thing, and that is, regularity 

 in answering correspondents, either in our Magazines or by 

 private letters. A portion of the above communication of 

 Judge Buel may probably have been intended more as private 

 than public, but we have thought it better to answer it in this 

 way, in order to make certain of its meeting the eyes of our 

 correspondent. — Cond. 



Art. XXIII. On protecting the Blossoms oj" Fruit Trees, on Walls, 

 from Frost. By Mr. David Cameron, A.L.S., late of Bury 

 Hill, now of the Birmingham Garden. 



Sir, 



The method of protecting fruit trees when in blossom 

 upon the walls, which I some time ago promised to send you, 

 is very simple as well as effectual, and has been practised in 

 this garden for a number of years. 



We take either young birch trees or strong birch copse 

 which are of the same height as the walls, the fuller of small 

 spray shoots the better. The branches are trimmed off from 

 that side of them designed to be next the wall, against which 

 they are placed upright. One man holds them there, whilst 

 another spreads out the branches thin, and fastens them to it 

 with a few nails and shreds. This operation is continued 



