F£savá&£Y 11, 1865.] 
ЕЕ GARDENERS CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
t. This much I may say, that if ever there 
pk for | the cultivation of the imer 
o The cip 
le is goo 
and the surface is filled up with leaves, and, I think, | 
the whole vien poat with sand, which gives 
alternate tree, but red several years I shall have crops 
occupy ing "em 
- чар е siz add. анна be m 
ceordin ммен, Any lady rendere 
erson and dress can walk through, ars and 
give them very superior cultur 
"à 
cipal ro of 
in the A "which f form ча m intended to, т 
fru Of course, in such a large 
o 
o take the places of those that a 
obstruction 
to сарасїо 8. vn scarce ly need be said that the 
old але ot jum йй. not find much хов with either 
ies or gentlemen, у unless n enthusiasm for filhor 
3 eeds nds, It 
ire whitew “| 
ж ату the 
б istic eye 
front rows ca 
mi 
fruit or flowe mmon bou plants, moreover, are clean, а nd, as 1р me h 
desirable object, therefore, 1 urface 
dium for the nici of plants, and at the same mee kopt u by means of six pipes се flows 
бше ај imple e walking space for those who desire to 
e the 
3 
that the шеш 
sit cw on side 
ath is 4 fee m: 
pi 
diffusion o 
3 
1 
5 
seule 92 LL П 
| water атар о] into the troughs 
up 
ge evaporating troughs, which are kept con- 
tin anliy A amie n with moisture, 
th 
h ders 
succession imus plunged | i 
ina most promising state, 
ssom ме р, owing to bein 
years, 
ro 
I then saw that planting жле trees 
been en thickly, might be reduced to a regular 
system If Mr. S pringett re ads this he е see that 
largely charged wit 
smell as on oceeding from x manure 
The command of heat is excellent, although the 
addition « of two pipes more for surface heat would | 
more evenly balance the bottom-heat, and Gu a 
the way mention that I havea piece of ground а тайн 
ore than one acre ас with Plum trees about 15 
-— old, тет: e iu y pr «45 in summer ; 
has made m season tha 
Sringtts : iom "So much fo 
mpa red with  'unmethodical growing of Apples ad 
пе crop 
2000 bash hels of -— 
O O 
> 
ADDS 
KA 
Feet. 4712inch 
little less firing. There are 1480 f. 
this ро use, attached to a saddle boiler егес 
Mered! Дм, Шш: is x abont 50 feet from 
A side T. 
Beans for fo: 
eet of piping in; 
ected by 
the house, 
as well. 
Frenet | 
upply. 
orcing, and вера u dequa 
e ammonia tells beautifully pn "tie йде b ая 
shor not в 
Ть 
Дель which during 
da rk 
Huge | 
locks of ДЫ, the largest which measure 7| 
| by 24 feet, are clasped together by iron bands to fo 
| the beds for plui ux the Lee ie in. ы look муса 
эы m. bei vet dressed form handsome walls ix 
on either side t M e of ven 
lation is as perfect as can P ceived, In v 
weather resort can be had to the ену on a level 
. 
“| t by eans despise standard orchard 
Sw ws are ані PRIMER ч ^ eir fruit 4 
valuable to the poor f, also to giv 
pigs the stomach ache ; 
S. show, they are not а 4 
class of. n consu "s 
per bushel s quite e 
г Mr. 
ora large wealthy 
, annually increasing ; 1з. 
ugh how ever, for Golden dil 
Pied. 
ied fit tor Kentish bora. 
of Sturmer Pippins, 
April and May will m ake 
4} t 
I mention 
ut Plums and Аре аб the risk 
spring t the ey ma ie 10s. the half sieve, 
he above facts abo 
of being 2 ngas egotiscic, merely to show Mr r. S. that 
Ia tI dares say I have been called „ру, the 
x Men 2 mp а 1 
t во, 100 асгев, 
1 more or less older Fei пем, in ATI Stages of 
their growth, gue if he will come elwil show р m Lus t 
t of a huudred," me 
restin g experimental quarters, among which. ` € 
interes 
pag aion of M s Orange Pippin of 100 ow on the 
English Paradise stock, were last autumn perfect 
pierres of fertility, as they ar re now pictures of promise, 
here is ced ch yet to 3 earn to bring fruit-tree cultur re 
m | to perfection. зш m, I 
олар to inn effe cts of different kinds of 
stocks, the improvement to be made by grafting; by 
t the. paro: of. enn 
bloo: short, when I what 
and ths lite that has been done in n fruit culture, ud gne 
ше вае 
mingled with hope | for the Ns. 
S ue 
the 
deme of; oth 
"The top icm E: 
| these openings are shown in 
| of ventiiating is би In IE the m house 
id ета till the trees bear, and when they 
soil, 
| overbear never thinning the fruit, the s э) ue 
y good. 
abundantly testifies to the practica 1 
foresight of those who designed it. J. А. 
Judicious 
FRUIT G G. 
Ок reading the heading of the article in No. 5, p. 101, | 
I quite ho oed and expected that some experi rienced 
Kentish fruit Vai ator had been stirred up to give us 
some hin tson fruit culture, or to describe some mode of | 
| fruit o 
garden in Essex still ornamented in this way. It is 
not at al, deg ato, Меч & Mr. S. never saw better 
hacked 
and, like their brethren in Kent, they 
mote it be. „э 
pr Springett seems to think that scd trees must 
alw.: T be * "n « diminative trees," for which he appears to 
feel the sort of contempt Pana "t a Шулмы 
H that a tree, 
an herad ө 
pong dye sc pruning that fruit can be 
ed scena ; ho Moss, is, the krite should 
r be used. am nelined to 
e seems 
whether a dwarf or про z Чеш жылалы will 
every season increase in ба that dwarf or pyra- 
ium) | Apple trees © sisme Paradise stock, and 
Aw 
- кэрек мун e othe 
a fresh 
r modes of culture but my o "i 
am not 80, howerer, for adding. to some ‘inherited ex- 
аз are Rt E n 
able of g large а of 
at p. 1203 (1864) 
чы H Pa of Apple 
rm the Tis 
e Pippin at 
I dvo for more than 40 years bee observer and a 
perimenter, marching on so ШЇ in cultural dio 
ledge that I often бї nk I ought to have known and | m 
growe 
one of "e | fuiterer' slope in the eros 
valued his tb at least 30s. per bushel. An 
und as a stock and tree 
5000 or 10,000 the price bien 
osed hea m ex 
e truth is that sound cultural knowledge must be | 
LE 
the work of many years; there is no rapid з road to it— | 
y ral y 
bearin it. 
however Fe) the Mur d seith as the superior 
[auia of fruit grown on а! g 
dou 
ensure an increased price of E per bushel ? A I ha 
no “ coaching”? Let me illustr: 
Pear. бгеев, 
4 т from row, for the 
purpose of cropping between [de 
the rows; they „bore fine crops ш injured by t 
d 5 feet apart in | gà 
he|h 
ы 
telling me that my Welli ну 
m 
ad they been large 
een '0 ia "xd now a, very fine 
cu ous. 
tells us Ad ice 
half sieve, or from 125. 
not. under the 
from 6s. to M 6d. per 
- 6d. per bushel ; "the. trees were 
t 
We fines as much as t por bushel.” Now, „here is 
a difference, not of 20, 
The 
(surely it "х be + 
not allowing the ics of у D) an а д tenant | 
ibat have been planted more — six years. Why it 
is nipping an orchard in the bud 
exist. The remedy is, pad 
; men of capital should become their o 
and then exercise their skill in cultivating 
laugha ablei it — to me to see а sensible man | 
betwee: grow wing Aire gi cultivating them, 
the summer at a trifling expense, x 
I wished to make, d 
er three years since to remoy ugh 
s old. Well, then and ii till then I perocived 
hati the trees, although only 5 feet apart, did n 
uch each other, but had plenty үе оош (oving 2 
heir bag pyramids and. regularly ed) to produce 
M crops of fruit, JH felt how г E inattentive : 
d been, and at once had them oved, 2000 о; 
len, planted in rows Pt s ta Ко ош row, б 
m 4 feet to low "тро е «eh tree from мч) їп е 
T rings a of 1863-4 were here 
e these 1 trees, al 
row 
prite s abont g and ши айп 
anciful forms," аз if that were cultivation ; i it brin ings з to | 
m nd the old topi e of mutilating 
com- 
ox 
ns were not t thought 
cut in 
1 yet e bave м Лон т more. than 5 per cent, of | h 
sts in about the me degree. 
"Т give the above partislus to enable ima du Э 
form a correct idea of what may be expec d fro 
what Mr, S. calls a * diminutive orchard ; » he ‚ши ^ 
forget that his standard trees ой, first planted were 
Dm perä and д ог) перото Гро п by 
and саг t it appears to 
fri Mr. " Springett's s letter, jw лд has never seen 
a dwarf or ene: Apple, qs nie r ite erry 
thei бый arfing tock make 
then fertile M рэ Дага шы: ; Mg that 
like the rural or абе of the West of England, 
them 
acres, and owing to that requ uired more 
| attend эчи aa more on in gathering the "mut; 
iew 
t quite one acre; and if ina 
years they b become at all crowded I shall remove M 
si happy, ,unsophisticated eta of mint; 
w phase! 
have written | no “ denunciation, of: Kentish 
| orchards.” 
No, I pointed out the advantages that, 
