974 THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. stint 3, 1860. 
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clergyman to keep a gardener, and so he cuts bis | some say also o 
trees himself. He is a clever man, and 
a goo 
observer, and from a solitary old Peach tree he | of short aiaee n made likewise in the RRi throw 
mazages to get a fair crop of fine fruit every |summer. It must also be clearly understo od that 
one side of his tree is three times as | ie ne ots Which have once borne fruit never b 
year 
big as the other, and it has an a ste m not unlike 
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what a ship-builder calls a t ‘crook ee us 0 see how far thes t for 
l tl — W which the bad at of Peach proper 
to aa a over the avin owing to not] t may be generally traced. These errors workmanship as if there were no Gove rnment 
actly what treatment a Padity ‘reel chiefly consist in laying in the bearing shoots at | inspectors. One of them when asked whethas 
requires. “it we could but grow it like an orchard | full length; in encouraging the sap to rise to the ae sap be sed, it being beforehand 
tree, as they do in the arm south, it would take top of the aN oom of using means to divert | that instructions were given not to use sap, replied 
ia sai waa but _ P Nji t into the lower branches; orin disbudding too |in a tone which Vrari seems to throw the re ‘espon- 
ic fruit tre ie ng b wall will time. ibility on the ins pecto “ IF there was sap used, 
aiia" it ‘to ripen ont of Tose: and pii cram en w. bearing beer are sich in at full length, the the Government inspe cae had an oppo rtunity of: 
and tortured out ofthe form of a great round bush | tree after bei ailed looks oon than if they | condemning i 
ee that of a wo ooon screen, viet but pene were shortened the shoots eal orous en nough Sti ee are that with anyi inspection 
st as ; confessedly grag 
nagement will kee Ta ealth a l will bea very well, and ae the trainer 
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productiveness. “Tak us then o. 
advice in this dull Nov Abee wei ather, an n | that cae 
ring branches young. 
gardens which have lost ses og ami are already abort at their extremity, but rarely a succession 
making pr jet en aia overing it e from their base, he once faced ee 
When È Peae i been perteetly well ta Îi length, 
aiibi. ‘wal ee branches fur- h 
wood of sufficient thickn to noe it | till at last the few leaves borne at the extremities 
in abundance; and at the same time ve Fearing | | BE unable to keep alive the great length of lea 
shoot has from its base a Joug shoot growing ap | less seder eee below them, which of course dies 
into its successor. ‘This is the summer aspect of | 3nd then has to be removed. In this way trees 
the tree. In winter it Ja foun à tha t the shoots | are feu 
which have borne f = sas use| Sap being disposed to flow more into the upper | 
parts of va piven baa bg ve dinig and the 
aes ome by the tv scien ton shiots, ‘The ens r, | latter bein 
are not trained in at full length, baea natural Sones, A A puniha 3 rae oa still 
weaker by encouraging the rise of sap upwards. 
fi their bas succeed them bay — however is dons whenever in moat the} 
r part of the tree is pruned and nailed several 
On the other or Nowe may be an nywhere séeni | dae before the upper ; or when the foliage on the 
Morten considerably in wing ig induce -psa 
prai pera ar andl at o the trt youn; oots to diminishes, 
ill a w le 
branchless. 
k from that}a 
w ithout 
i Two aca sett to Wich the ins Beya 
direction would nattirally bë turned, would be the 
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the f devils, and many disasters haye 
arisen from the fraud. The followin k: age 
illnstrative of the point occurs in PRENT ’s life 
CENT, pp. 159- — “ 
shi oe s supp to haye a certai ber of 
bolts driven to seare ko ie. ae: ae and 
“a8 oints only were dri in, 
way. It is rahabe that the ver ot the 3 York, of 
òi — sa the ee: nheim, of 74 guns, was the 
conseque The Albion, 79, uM ON have 
been pense. lost by this hellish fr 
As regards the use o ea the ape is now so 
evident in the Caroline to th unpractised 
eye 
of the same age e last, growing in the same | 
upper 
kind of soil, ona Ko similar circumstances of |in excess of that on the low 
climate and aspect; but instead of health and|¢ase when lateral hosti te ‘emit to. gro 
vigour they exhibit symptoms of decay, The | 2bove but not below; moreover, whenever the lower 
branches are regularly trained like those at Char- | Patt of a tree i sh de L i 
tington Manor. ‘The bearing wood is weak, | Whilst they Cente scope light, a 
because the shoots have been laid in mA full length, | Parity of growth must take place w 
reason | consequences, _ 
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the bases of those left for 
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, that the inspector himself “tainly declares 
is shade 
that he cannot understand how it can have been 
W | passed over. ae only ax of the difficulty 
rests on the t of tim make an accura 
weak om the fruit is small and Mealy fed. Row | shoots 
and then coarse, watery shoots burst out from the becomes necessary to tl 
old pends and aa bef = ins be aa shows that | always be done at an ely i of their pots maiden sap, and the diffic gen me ins stan es Of 
ow had been allowed to g the summer | It. is, however, very w. to remove at one rei be) sap from hiss woul We know hatik 
had been ae “back clay Py the winter | thinning the whole of those ‘which may be deemed | the eof gree pms art such ulty does exist, 
ae n The — in th A vic kity of ‘the | superfluoùs ; for PY so doing the early bjections to its use for plank- 
wounds | pours o at onsequence of the of the tree ree shock from the effects of} ing that com! wt workmen may neglect to remove» 
stagnation of the sap which th bas vigorous shoots which = cannot s noan recover it. The same observation applies. to some other 
or have taken up had they been ‘allowed to he Hig recollect that volume on volume 8 and there is sli i 
"Sow, when one tree exhibits a healthy vegeta- 
pe 
Saa mag hanen a aol otk si fine fruit ; whilst the p preveding remarks explains the whole axt, and begi 
diseased ai ds a oY tively | mystery of the m ut we do say that with 
for 
sal mall quantity of interior Talay under circum- | the addition 
olum has | kind 
veittan = Ee Curt we cannot Seta 
m| or 
of a Tittle intelligence and a little 
tances equally favourable, the difference can only experience if is amply sufficient to prevent such 
P 5 3 an 
ch tree 
te open 3g some essential points of |errors 
We sh Care Barner our 
to eekaine: " such of them as onsider 
ost. commonly lead to the ruin of the | ma 
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be productive of the worst consequences THE Seiten before the Saeed of the House | 
A few ae remarks on ba, ure of Pea 4 Comm n Gun and M orta e Boathcand the 
pe a ees are, howev: sri 5 e the publie, and | Woo 
ye arii ra “7 rtain points connected pang their eset nt eins ary Tide. that we have not 
“a co voters a ps pe pen i it 
Under favo e circumstances these trees by asad without not 
grow With. paan Ms when young, and 
waists which the boats were 
soon arrive a j but they are not | built, the m necessity 5 of completing them as saat 
of supplying 
naturally Thing tived, than ee sandart in 
this climate at least, and not pruned, the ipa ed not of obtaining a 
ues 
in such quantities that it is very supri ising that 
both foremen and inspector should pass it by 
The rn on consequence of the use 
ret osed in rapidly and prematurely, i 
dry ro ma stay. 
In an case of the two which were 
am, Sab only was sappy timber 
ufficient m 
i d, uce oung shcots at to insure good workmanship à e- | bro! 
their extremities ; and these every year less without eri r dockyards, exonerat es Ernita ten Ua. bak the pins or dowels connecting the ribs 
and Tess till at last only an inch or two of young | ene at yg eT the blame which has| Were so extremely faulty that we surp 
shoot is formed, and a few leaves which are. insuf- | attached to it on ‘the ubject, un- subject was not mentioned before the ar 
ficient to draw sap to keep alive the long extent of | anal persis in many ¢ MRS indispensable, | mittee when their condition ze reported, 
naked branches a me ey terminate, and the] from the eno: pets ger tity w was requisite, | a point of as much consequence as the use of short 
latter consequently lin d die off. Occasionally, | and the real “poston ` i pea is stated in a] °F — Ts 
however, strong shoots a directly from the old | manly and straightforw way in one of t a Its gain, that 
wood, and these giye the vegetation of the tree a answers y Ay EAR i KER:— | me entioned S ro tho Comat of >s fact mAy 
fresh impulse; but it is irregularly carried o on “These vessels were wanted | in a short period ; |.rot ma: chemical causes; where 
between lingering branches and the were requ at thers i nai no mi or 8. This Sa have at onoe 
of strong shoots. The sap of the Peach has alt r the Balti f the foll xplained a matter which seem cause 
stronger tendency to flow into the upright kait ing yea te utmost ADAAN that | prise, that rot might exist in one plank without 
than is the case with that of the Apple and Pe ear ; | they ania ee ht and I say if Government 
are more liable to beco; nd di 
i been aware that they could not get hase WAG 
| spreading to the next. It has besides a bearing 
| upon the vexed question, natte the hauling up , 
s | the vessels into dry slips i ractice or 
Without giving a positive opinion u 
to build them.” 
s to | 
to deviate into lateral p aaae el ba the side but green timber, | so gets was it t o have 
than those 
hat 
Coquette pes which has neve 
assertion 
ject, we may express our se h iction that 
was in no ease caused by it “ ‘ee, a = iam 
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<i greatly checked if not entirely prevented the 
the sub- . 
pon ae 
else ro the n ene ae other 3 
| afloat © a hauled up, a free vaknak w uk tayo : 
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