98 THE MINIATURE FRUIT GARDEN. 



of every shoot as soon as it has made six leaves, leav- 

 ing five. The stem must be kept quite clear from 

 young shoots. By the autumn, nice round-headed 

 trees will be formed, and about the end of October 

 tlicy should be taken up (their leaves cut off, if they 

 have not fallen) and placed in a cellar — no matter if 

 dark, but a light dry cellar would be preferable — some 

 earth should be placed over their roots, and there 

 they may remain till the first week in ilay. when 

 they should be planted out, and the same routine of 

 culture followed. They will bear one good crop of 

 fruit in a season, and ripen it in September. This 

 annual removal brings on p;reat sturdiness <if growth 

 in the tree, and the roots becomes so fibr( ms as to hold 

 a large quantity of earth, which should not be shaken 

 from them when they g" into their annual winter 

 abode. In the year IS.") 7 I saw fine trees thus treated 

 in the garden of the Duke of Altenburg, iu Central 

 (ii nnaii\ ; their stems were as stout as a man\s leg 

 and their heads full of fruit ; and this season, 1 S65, 

 my f)g-tree>, taken up last ( Jctober. and placed in the 

 orchard-house during the winter — their roots in the 

 soil — have given me a crop of very rich, well-ripened 

 fruit. The roots that ha^ c borne best are the Brown 

 Ischin, Brown Turkey, and Brunswick. 



THE BIENNIAL liliMoV.VI. OF VRITT TKEES WITHOUT 



Kiior-ri;r\iN(!. 



For some few years past I have felt a growing con- 

 viction that praeli trees trained again^t walls in tlio 

 usual manner, without caret'ul root eiiltivatioii, can- 

 not, in our (Tiiiiate, be kept in a state at all healthy 



