EEMOVING TREES BIENNIALLY. 101 



Tlie plethoric habit of the Moor Park and Peach 

 apricots, whicli so often leads to disease and death, 

 will be effectually cured by this simple mode of cul- 

 ture, and peaches and nectarines will make short 

 annual sboots, which will be always well ripened, so 

 that they will be constantly full of healthy blossom- 

 buds. For trees under Mr. Ker's trellises, it answers 

 admirably. Some mulch, or old tan, two inches in 

 depth, placed on the surface of the soil so far as the 

 roots spread during the spring and summer, will be 

 of much service. 



All trees that are inclined to make very fibrous 

 roots, such as plums, pears on quince stocks, and ap- 

 ples on Paradise stocks, may be lifted — i. e., removed 

 biennially, as above described — with equal or greater 

 facility than root-pruning them. The effect is the 

 same : they make short, well-ripened shoots, and bear 

 abundantly. Apples on Paradise stocks, cultivated 

 as dwarf bushes or as pyramids, if lifted every year, 

 and a shovelful or two of compost given to thsm, form 

 delightful little trees.^ The most delicate sorts of 

 apples, such as Golden Pippins and ]S"onpareils, may 

 tbus be cultivated in the most unfavorable soils ; and 

 Roses, more particularly Bourbon Hoses on short 

 stems, and Hybrid Perpetuals, removed annually in 

 the autumn, giving to each tree a shovelful of rich 

 compost, and not pruning their shoots till April, will 

 bloom delightfully all the autumn, never dropping 

 their leaves towards the end of sxmamer, and becom- 

 ing, as is too often the case, blighted and blossomless. 



^ In moist retentive soils, tlie fruit-spurs of small trees become covered with 

 moss ; some powdered lime sprinkled over them will destroy it ; this is beet done 

 in foggy weather in winter. 



