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Remarks on the Ringing of Fruit Trees, 



Design 8. {Jig. 13.) represents a crescent, where only the line 

 for the houses is given. The front is laid out as a shrubbery, 

 with groups of shrubs planted on the grass, but where clumps 

 may be introduced if better approved of. In the centre is a 

 circle intended for a fountain, or any other appropriate embel- 

 lishment ; at the back of which is an alcove. The other small 

 circles and squares are also intended for articles for embellish- 

 ment ; and seats may be introduced at pleasure in any of the 

 shaded situations. The approach to the crescent is by a carriage 

 drive, with a small entrance lodge at each end. The small walks 

 are meant to be laid down with stone. 



Portland Placet 1835. 



Art. VI. Remarks on the Ringing of Fruit Trees. Translated from 

 an Article on that subject by M. van Mons, published in Belgium. 



The season for ringing fruit trees [the spring] is approach- 

 ing ; and I cannot let it pass by without a word or two on the 

 practice, and on the effects of the operation. 



Ringing a tree cuts off the part operated upon from the cir- 

 culation of the sap, and necessitates it to subsist principally on 

 the nourishment which the leaves derive from the air. We 

 will not say in what respects this nourishment differs from that 

 which the tree derives from its roots ; but we will remark that 

 nature provides abundance of leaves for those buds which she 

 intends to produce flowers. 



