60 THE MINIATURE FRUIT GARDEN. 



camellias watered just as if the pears were not 

 tlaere. In severe frosts, the temperature was kept 

 just ahove freezing. The autumn pears under this 

 treatment ripened slowlj, and were of excellent 

 flavor. The late pears kept till April; hut then, 

 owing to the power of the sun, the air of the house 

 became too warm and dry, and they shrivelled. I 

 should therefore recommend winter pears to be kept 

 in the greenhouse in covered pots or jars (I now use 

 large clean flower-pots with wooden covers), placing 

 them in early in December, 



Mr. Tillery, of the "Wellbeck Gardens, keeps his 

 choice pears and apples in boxes of bran with great 

 success. The bran, before it is used, should be 

 thoroughly di"ied and sifted, so as to take from it all 

 the small particles of meal. With this treatment 

 pears and ajiples may be placed in it as Sdon a* they 

 are i^atlicreil. The boxes should be quite shallow, so 

 as to admit of only one layer of fruit, which should 

 be (•o\'ereil with the bran, and no lids placed on the 

 boxes. Tlie bran is apt to become musty. 



ptramidjVL apple trees on the pakadise apple 



STOCK. 



Apples as ]iyramids on the Paradise stock are ob- 

 jects of great beauty and utility. This stock, like the 

 (|uince, is remarkable for it-^ tendency to emit numerous 

 iilirons roots near the surface, and for contracting the 

 f^rowth of the graft, causing it to become fruitful at a 

 MTV early stage. On tlie Continent there arc two 

 varieties of tlie apple under this denoiniuatiou — vi/..^ 

 the Doucin and tlio i'oiume do Paradis; tlieso arc 



