66 THE MINIATURE FRUIT GARDEN. 



en )ps of fruit, I found so many displaced by the wind 

 tliat sii])prirtiiifi; them with stakes became expensive 

 and troublesome; I tlierefore recommend all those, 

 who wisli to make their pear-tree pJantutiuns profita- 

 ble as well as pleasurable, to plant bush trees.' la 

 sheltered gardens the amateur may without hesitation 

 continue to plant pyramids, for no description of fruit 

 tree can be more interesting; but when profit is to be 

 attached to cultivation, and fruit trees cultivated by 

 the acre, the bush form must be adhered to. The 

 varieties best adapted \o this mode of culture are, fir^-t 

 and best, Lotiisc Bonne of Jersey, Fondante d'Au- 

 tomne,Beurred'Aremberg,BeurreSuperfin,Wil]iaiiis"s 

 Bon C'ln-etien, BemTe Baehelier, AVinter Xelis, and 

 Bergamotte d'J'^speren. If more robust growing sorts 

 are planted, such as BeuiTe Diel, Beurre d'Amanlis, 

 Beurre Hardy, and some others, the plantation should 

 be commenced witli rows four feet apart, and the 

 trees four feet apart in the rows. The ground occu- 

 ]iied by the plantation should be stin-ed with the 

 Parkes' steel fork every season, in February or ?>i arch, 

 but not deeper than from four to fi^•e inches, and tlio 

 weeds carefully turned down. In the summer the 

 weeds must be ke]it under by hoeing, which wiU keep 

 tlie surface loose and promote the lie:dtli of the trees ; 

 without tliis stirring with the fork in early spring, the 

 soil would become too luu'd during the sunmier for 

 hoeing witii facility. 



OArni:i;:N(i tue FiaiT. 

 The fruit of pears, mure particularly lliose on 



> ThONfl mny t'o with atlviuiUif;o n «nrt t.f hyl>i-lil bush tjvo, pArtftktng a lUUo of 

 tho pyrumti], uud alluwoil to ^ruw to ix liotght of four or flvo feot. 



