Janvary 8, 1887.] 
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as espaliers, wall ried or pyramids, Root‏ روید 
pruning will cause unfruitful trees to bear, and thine‏ 
The Pear‏ و ctise‏ 
масы іѕ «A fastidious about soil. My ov vp Weis 
of th ock convinces me that it is the 
add stock for A styles of garden training ; it is 
adapted espaliers, ру ew bushes, к cordons 
Cordon training, = h known and p 
1 ше, gat been brought m 
minently into ا‎ ‘durin ng the las 
It is perhaps the most 
large Hanes of fruit; and a wall 
О six = ears will pron 
from 12 to 154 feet high in five 
duce like results. I have fo pruning twice a 
year (in June and October) is sufficient to keep the 
trees fruitful order. I une ] 
Vertical cordons planted in the open ground 4 feet 
apart will give lar rops Two forms o 
cordon training seem to me 
t very пг 
plan of trai ing over an 
0 
latter 1s contrary to common sense, part tree 
eing grown in the shade. All cordons require the 
same sy f pru Pyra d 
a 
ees—the side 
June and a leading shoot un 
oots ge occasio amily remove 
admit the sun, the unpruned меж 
e shortened back in Oct ober. 
в 
the most useful. The Ta ON vga will 
render the —— independe f thes If Pear 
growing is to be made a eerta cultivation under 
glass must be adopted. 
wate ith m 
ree times а w eek; when абын ыд 
must be ишете ulture under 
E rop a certainty, requires no 
more eerie than i is given to belo or Cucumber 
growin 
“ Protection to cordon trees trained about 1 foot 
aced 
covered with mats during severe 
frost. 
vineries also form very efficient protection, but they 
are not so cheap as the ks. 
“ Raising seedling Pears is always interesting from 
the uncertainty which wee the pues. nare 
raised some hun from the 
which I have crossed in | “conceivable Poi ba 
“ Conference " 3 he suffrages 
dii бушый Раг Con мө 1086, tamie 
from a baking Pear, the Leon le de Laval, the 
pips of which I planted without any special design. 
All рш intended for "E e eg be taken from the 
finest and си t develo 
“ The sorts of Pears ks introduction em 
by the Pear Congres ess of 1885 were the follow 
leurré rd Emile d'Heyst 
к! 8 же ourite Beurré d'Anjou 
Summer Beurré d'Aremberg Marie Benoist 
Madame Tre am Beurré de T 
jeurré ont Rose Crass 
'itmaston D Duchess prem teeny per Bordeaux 
il с ier de Ser 
Tadame André Leroy Nouvelle F ulvi ie 
Conference L'Inconnue 
And for orchards and market gardens :— 
Bea Marie ae d'Uecle 
Fertilit ity Duron 
Souvenir du Congrés 
The improvement in Pears ^ no doubt continue, 
in 1986 amateurs will wonder that we could be 
will enjoy, even as 
the fruits which charmed De la Quintinye and his 
friends. 
TAPEINANTHUS HUMILIS. 
Tuts is a plant originally described by Cavanilles, 
bat of which very little has hitherto been known, 
FIG. 13.—TAPEINANTHUS HUMILIS: FLOWERS YELLOW. 
Herbert obtaining his gE gm from his pre- 
ecessors, It is a nativ hern Spain and 
Tangi 
recently n 
forming yellow flowers, 
up before V de ep. though the latter soon make 
their appearan As wi те from our ves 
13), the — owers are 
Gobet pde ic pad is described by 
s 
Tapeinanthus 
the flower, from the Greek tapeinos, on the ground ; 
and anthos, flower. 
‚ MODESTA VAR. де —A ee 
th lanceolate 
HOME CORRESPONDENCE. 
CLEANING ORCHARD TREES. —Lichen or moss should 
Pri d and branches 
tin 
eral moist ned m of the 
СӘН, H. W. Wa Sd 
THE Бори Maccot.—I think the maggot 
“R. D.,” at p. 22, is not confined to 
alluded to by А 
any particular district, nor is it of recent origin. We 
have been troubled with it here this season, but not 
to any serious extent, yout seven or cig t years 
ago I fo e same kind of maggot among the 
Tree Carnations at Chiswi Finding tiat some of 
the plants hon. losing their main shoo 
somewhat puzzled as to the cause, the laati other- 
wise being very healthy ; however, on examination 
soon discovered the cause. In cutting through 
those th 
at TR dying. away I found the maggots in 
the stems workin way downwards; on further 
examination I found others that had only just com- 
enced their work of destruction, The first indi- 
cation eir pr he tips of the 
kept off to some extent by the frequ e - 
water. By keeping the plants frequently syringed 
with soot-water, previous to 
o their coming into flower, 
kept off. 
een-fly and other insects will be 
A, Hemsley, 
mis pest has served me much worse than it 
Turner, as reported in your n r of 
deut l. About four years ago, being desirous of 
growing a collection of Carnations both for cutting 
p ants, I added som the 
ing mostly of old, ve | Дик In the 
tumn (abou Novem ber) 1 he centres of 
the ar dying out, xad Tages be ore especially 
attacked i way y orres 1 ndent described. 
Since that. time until last ae feeling determined 
not to be beaten, I have by purchase still try- 
ing to add to my varieties, hoping by taking 
d potting the laye ly, and thus re 
off an 
NE sis from 
bee to 
night be V died wit 
we should be free 
wish see, in November, to my dismay, 
withered leaves in the centres of the young plants 
(also on laterals, where the plants had any) 
began to чл pt and on examination the enemy was 
€ in each ied em, The centres 
course, м 
During the past two seasons, 
common wees ка and ebloured Lon and ye as 
