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GARDENERS’ 
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nag icturesque festoons, and addin 
the spa E seater e to the scenery of the ere 
ë when c 
up and planted with Rice. 
oc F af Rice and sour milk, 
m which 
om sour Oranges and 
eaten, as it is thought ta 
e humidity of the atmosphere he 
Eim deran 
a 
: try ore aioe te e pla 
> E been formed by planting among the Saina] 
trees, a ae at off their branches to o giv 
Owi ing to the 
richest orga mo oS 
oo in 
pace dl wherewith to satisfy the demands of 
the tax gathere 
The F apaiy of the foreign commerce of the 
try de eatly upon the silk trade, as all 
the p fakisiions of the kingdom which are s suit- 
able for grea do not at Denk furnish returns 
sufficient to y for one-half th erchandise 
annually iapart rom Europe. This destruction of 
the silkworm in the north, followed by an unprec 
— drought in the sou and eastern provinces, 
a rces of Persia, 
which has 
f 
soyam country has suffered 
been ly vated by the eh means 0 
transport, m. me 
— on the Casp B 
Sulf. Should the construction of these and other 
public w ona scale ensurate 
com 
d importance, there is good 
reason to hope that, with hentia of capital, abun- 
lance a brisk demand for labour, the 
age mg rise from the hs 
Siatttion into which famine, pestilence and 
Persistent oppression have plunged it. £. Z. B. 
DWARF PEAR — 
whole range 
which the 
e 
combination of circumstances that would 
pe the best possible eed with standard 
PS ese circumstances the grow 
= ted Produce fruit where the dwarf will invariably fal. 
the full knowledge that they soon die and have 
to be replaced with standard tre 
There is cr Se tradesmen no , class ira sa 
more liberal censure ‘than seedsmen and nurserym 
and that this = tenmre is often in a degree mesic 
ie is eand] ayy 
The beginner in ni it growing visits the fall exhibi- 
tions, and, after carefully examining the sya pae of 
Pears, notes in his memorandum book the es of 
such as please his fancy, an nd, without any enti or 
investigation as to the location, variety, and prepara- 
tion of soil, or care of the trees t that have produced the 
is obliged to aki thet g tosd aid a 
can get at the a season of the 
secure ed his trees 
vi h 
ing varieties have i some inferior peT of 
fruit i d exhibi- 
tions are declared hisabaps, and the dealers in trees a 
The dg care of good fruit is not the work of 
r the same or similar 
Quince delights in a srg strong, 
afting the Pear upon it does not 
err the nature or wants of its roots 
I cannot better illustrate the en of the soil upon 
the Sead Pear than by. referrin of 
rs as to the general 
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fa 
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and moist, ot of it ae 
the sloping enders 
he s see and 
location, as they ma; found in almost every zal 
den, under all kinds of cocina as ea and vig 
ous, and continuing fo rod heir Ater 
ith 
veral se 
pasts of "fine Duchess Pears 
his kind of f soil, in the spring of 
ear trees, one half dwarfs. The ground 
he wood of the previous 
ae roots, carefully taken 
become dry 
moved the first two years ; 
the third year a few speci- 
mens were ee to 
grow, and since that time the 
dwarfs eae uced regular crops every year, 
they h arly, i if not quite, all of them become 
partially i eee standard trees, having thrown roots 
m the Pear stock below the surface. The dwarfs 
ave me th antage over Ars s of their early 
fruiting, and have in the meanti artially 
oug i 
Sate ta imperfect, especially i in the first years of fruiting, 
e same 7 and uniform 
y dw 
upon the Quince, yet toa few o hai m ommo 
$ a 
id MBPT p 
in fact, were it not for a dwarf som the best 
varieties would be unknown agt rag collections, 
hi yt 
the distant future if we 
tan Í ad is an ornament in the 
garden, growing naturally in pyramidal form m- 
for its yearly return 
evenly over the tree, requires less iia than many 
varieties. 
The Vicar of Winkfield, though not a Pear fal first 
quality, yet, on account of its large size and time of 
e 
with ote jiena as dwa 
are among the 
grown n most successfully as as dw 
Leaving the question of orchard culture to those of 
more experience, it may be claim for the dwarf 
ge 
mot t desirable, and are 
be s 
horough, as th of failure will be more generally 
found in the f preparation for, rather than in 
tree e land 
gY» 
stagnan 
the soil well wor over and enri 
of 2 
be necessary to muic 
e trees — establish 
Having se 
dwarf trees in the s oe ay tt ll started Ay but, 
about the middle of July they Aas growing, and i 
fi ion the soil seemed aan = 
giv 
gro trees, 
y those that are | rked, or budded near the 
crown of the figs <0 ‘that when they are set the 
Quince portion of the: stock may be placed at least 
three inches w the Baig without carrying the 
roots too low in the 
Much of the oak > aay — with the knife 
r and more easily done by ieu 
, make large, soft, unripe ; t of which 
o be cut out to p the form of the tree. If 
ose shoots are pinched in, after having ad 
much growth as can be retained, the ood will b e 
d, the sap will be thrown into the less vigorous 
branches, and a more uniform growt secured ; 
and at the time of doing this the necessary th of 
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