262 Management of the finer Sorts of French Pears. 



bearers. If plenty of blossom appears, the temporary trees 

 may now be taken up and planted in other situations, other- 

 wise they may remain another year. After the temporary 

 trees are removed, the young shoots which, we will suppose, 

 are now fully furnished with blossom buds, may be trained in 

 a direction sufficiently sloping upwards for the terminal bud 

 of each to be within four or five inches of the horizontal 

 branch above (fig. 71-)- If tne y show a disposition to grow 



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too strong they may be deeply notched, or a ring may be 

 made round such as require it about the eighth of an inch 

 wide. In either case, let it be close to the branch from which 

 the shoots spring. As they become diseased or worn out, or 

 have produced long spurs, train in a young shoot by the side 

 of any it may be proper to displace, and after the second 

 vear cut the old one out. In case a tree, after it has filled the 

 space allowed it, continues very luxuriant in growth, recourse 

 may be had to the usual methods of checking it, either by 

 cutting the roots, or sawing the stem half or two thirds 

 through just below the surface of the ground, or deep notches 

 may be made on each side with the chisel ; a single tree may, 

 of course, be treated according to this plan. 



There can be no doubt, by adopting this mode of treatment, 

 the Colmar, Crassane, and other shy-bearing kinds of pears, 

 would yield for a very long period of years abundant crops of 

 large, fair, and fine-flavoured fruit. 



The temporary trees, if taken up with care, will certainly 

 grow, and be found very valuable : they may be either planted 

 against another wall, or if of sufficiently hardy kinds, treated 

 as espaliers, cutting off the two or three upper pair of 

 branches ; in either case, young shoots are to be trained in 

 between the old ones, as already directed for the perma- 

 nent trees : should you have a wall with an aspect not suf- 

 ficiently good to ripen the fruit of these removed trees, or 

 should they be of those kinds which will not come to perfec- 



