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Treatment of old Fruit Trees 



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The following February (1831), each plant was pruned so as 

 to leave two eyes only above ground ; and, when the vines had 

 pushed about 6 in., the weaker of the two eyes was rubbed off, 

 and the remaining shoot tied to the stake ; which shoot made"^ 

 about 4 ft. wood before autumn. 



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The second year (1832), each shoot was pruned to two eyes, 

 and both allowed to push ; three eyes of each shoot were left at 

 the time of pruning, in the third year (1833); when I began to reap 

 some advantage from my vineyard, which has, by care and atten- 

 tion, progressively improved, and is at present in a flourishing 

 condition. The principal difficulties with which I have had to 

 contend are, the spring and autumn frosts, which have sometimes 

 done me much damage, but which now, I am happy to say, I do 

 not dread, having discovered a mode effectually to avert both. 



Some experiments are trying with the knife, the result of which 

 will be shortly communicated. 



Collin Deep Cottage, near Hendon, June 20. 1836. 



Art. X. On the Treatment of old Fruit Trees ivhich it is wished 

 to preserve; and on the Advantages of laying Cow-Dung at the Bases 

 of their Trunks, and also at the Rootstalks of Vines. By W. A. L. 



In most old gardens there are to be found the aged remains 

 of some favourite fruit tree, which the proprietor is unwilling to 

 have removed, either from its having produced excellent fruit, 

 or from early associations connected with it. Hence it still re- 



