27—1 850. 
THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
4¹⁰ 
per- be ex 
— KNIGHT AND — feel themselves 
see them come from the nurseries in the most 
foet 
y anå vigilance 
has so le 1 sion 
is mainly utable) is, if poss W; an e 
* they ey han ve take 9i to arrive correctly at t the profession: nal 
and priva aracter of those they send out as tage wien pen 
FORESTERS, Halit — induce them to undertake 
hesitatin furnis first-rate men in 
to d = 
‘ever called on t rae vy, Ringe: road, Chelsea, London. 
ee NURSERY, MARESFIELD, NEAR 
bch | rer — 
the seas of the ‘may be 
pene that Forte 12 Standards may be seen fi 
e bed; also many Thousand Dwarf, Dwarf Standard, wed 
oses, covering m 
Coache —— y daily) from Brighton to Tunbridg 
. — of which passes through Maresfield, — within five 
putes’ walk of the Nursery.—Jaly 6. 
ness ; 
. no fewer than a 
the 
ge ap have to offer a fine and ex- 
ing the greater part of ‘the French 
varieties sea at 6s., 9s., and 12s. per dozen; also 
40 varieties of the admired 2 gorges emum, 
aised by am Toulouse, ut last summ 
for the first time. Price ls. each. 
— 
3 ve, H. L. and Co. have imported largely 
v Phloxes, Fuchsias, &c., — list 
Stwhien pe eya had on application,—Clapton Nursery, Jul y 6. 
The Ga Gardeners’ Chronicle. 
ATURDAY, JULY 6, 1850. 
a oes FOR THE ENSUING WEEK. 
UNSDAT, Julx Zoological > r. u. 
Wapwnspax, — sof g . S 
13— itural Gardens 1 r. u. 
Sarunpay, 
Country uS 3 July 9: Whitby Floral, and Lichfleld Floral 
and Horticultural. — — July a and e, —— Leeds Horti- 
cultural aod Floral. sday, July 11: Malvern Horticultural and Floral. 
fect condition ; being handso 
me miniature trees, with 
bea 
cing 
e ope 
and — soil becomes —＋ 
may, and often do, suffer injury practice of 
s | cutting the roots yearly while the * vě is young, and 
before it has attained the size des 
c 
e d when it is yet 
tremely fruitful habit of the trees, as now sent out, i 
incompatible with that quick growth which we all 
ike to see in Sees intended to be trained to a par- 
ticular fo size, and kept to that, when it is 
once attained, by judicious root-pru 
ai Ee 
pruning. 
w owners are, of course, delighted on re- 
ceivin; — es from the nurse 1 and are = 
busy i — i plasing t — in their stations in t 
The lanted, noe — — my in 
— 
ring the well watered. 
The great and good is gone! 
Mourn, England, mourn the gentle 
the 
heart and iron nerve that saved |fruitfal habit which the 
you at your utmost need. Sir 
ROBERT PEEL is dead. 
order et ms 
size desired in — shortest —— — good 
oil, and car a mulc: an 
— Ting, with ‘frequent —— ea training -A $ 
ew yea indispensable. But during this 
plan 14 in aie soils ea ef short- intel ‘sd 
been at i pain 
zen readers are aware that notice has been given 
ce of the Por 
of the reappeara — DISEASE here an 
there in Ireland. Knowing, as o, the great ex- 
tent of land unhappily roving in that country, a 
general failure of the crop cannot be ven, mer 
without v Mg e p ee We believ 
ever, ori NN alarm which has been tone: sae ha 
she Spee ge That disease has reap 
eared 10 Px 
Wes say thie anol a view to allay such alarm as has ai 
been taken. At the same time, it is our duty t to de- 
clare that iti: 
disease to be gone. On the cont rary, a good m 
instances of mischief in in E ir ne Tast 
ear might month of April 
e saw Pes en in bina. in Hertford- 
shire, exactly as they rotted in the Dublin cellars in 
1845. Pr y, if we should have dry 
autumn, there will be little to fear, provi 
„ and above and 
beyond al all, competition ‘for i o has 
rn province of e ritish 
empire into a 
— va. al but hopeless rui 
Mocn as the N * the Pear and other 
80 strongly and ly 
in his Miniature Fruit Garden,” yet, i 
— and — ga grow so late in — 
and ripen Yi mere 
winter er stopping are not 
Sofficient Ives to effect the desired end. 
This over 1 of growth is mainly 
induced imulating soil, aided by the mulching 
— Angee as soon as the young trees are 
ing from the nursery. So well 
lar been ed of 
those who have 
and nee to eee the public with the be 
suitable stocks, that we not — 
brought whether 
ember, 
y Mr. Ravans, 
me W. 
may be termed a E eeng of 7 notwith- 
standing “that e depth of soil in which they are 
ted been limited to a foot or 18 inches; and 
su rvious bottom of rubble and con- 
ests upon an 1 
— to 53 their roots from going too 
id growth and a fruitful habit cannot 
obtain at ‘the sam 
nabled to grow the tree in 
a in the shortest space “of time, and then 
one season, to peri it in 5 freee state. The 
rme j d in the | © 
to ensure plenty of fruit-buds for the ensuing se 
many it a startling assertion, iti iti is 
with a view to ma m ripen ood well, 
and set 1 of — — is in July or 
Au situations, as soon as they 
have formed: their f first growth; wae many 
cae a — — or what is termed a 
er growt which are the 21 gm 
— although ` e young trees sometimes 
tinue to grow throughout the season until thei 
old on the approach. of 
can be 
is 
ration of the sa 
commences. This principle applies to all fruit trees, 
———— 5 ea Kept t as standards, that 
are unfruitful or in too gross a state. It also 
beautifully with the system of summer pruning and 
stopping, | > a proper balance is preserved by it be- 
tween and branch. The natural pate A of 
manage 
made it their — followin 
uti- | 
m 
dry w 2 first sprin upplied 
All this is 8 right; for yria the 708 
tre ook at in their dwarfed state, Which 
their over luxuriance e, especial] Axe 
stent — As a matter of co 
necessa 
whi 
— rafter planting), if th 
state, 
found 1 to 1 ae > pate 
ears, after they are planted 
we 
ne and bear, with scarcely 
of root- Pruning. 
Mnf only to order his trees al 
e time, t e great matter is to be 
o the form. and size on 
irae, that the best time 9 2 root pruning fruit trees, 
them ir wi tivel 
early in se 
trees | fro 
mid- 
. | 
n of fruit: 
accords | 
but hun 
acces- selves of pip 
mey 
— height; and it 
o purchasers to — (often in the first 
those oie are situated where fruit trees ripen their 
pe any assis 
In such — the 3 
expected, the trees not unfrequen 
-pn Re or moist 
be 
caus fray bt for 
in their 
a, Ow J 
— — and then summer root-prune Sona 
We confess that of 
position of 
in the 
aie 
rees are interesting to | they ar tead of having as formerly 
most people prefer ee them of sip size as . to wait for 9 —5 me * 2 8 by our 
as le; and trained either a handsome in February 1849 ada oots from 
pyramidal form, 8 4 to . high, well 22 3 to 4 feet in leng 2 —— trellises 
with shoots from the base t Se may be | 5 feet Sa a ye Sr e 
— a — 2 — umbrella sh — to ty well covered with T we 
fancy. ttain the form } shall root-prane in ays, encing by 
could be aces bat it 
The only difficult 
d 
ise directions on 4 
only been planted , three, or 
with saf bec 
| th 
supply y of a 
w | In soils where the 
call this 
suring fruit buds 
was before nothing but 
kee vious to 
umerous 
ns 
, Apples, * and Apricots, 
ely necessary. 
against them, in 
strike freely into it; which they imme- 
growt 
owth is at its s height. 
d 
y wide, 2 9 feet at high, were root- 
pruned, for the first time, in July, 1 the 
h ve years in strong 
other i 
y which pin osha — Hehn to find, 
in applying this system of root-pruning, be i 
te the distance from the 
m 
stem at which the 
rye 
r fou rs may, 
t to within about 2 or 3 feet of 
masses. of watery, 
. oN TRANSPLANTING LARGE 
more than i occasion, that h 
sideration in ornamental gar 
