102 THE MINUTtTRE FRUIT GABDEN. 



To conclude, I will, as a guide to the amateur, give 

 the following summary ; — If the soil be very rich, so 

 as to induce the trees planted in it to make a growth 

 of eighteen inches in one season, they may be removed 

 annually till this vigorous growth ceases. K the trees 

 make an annual growth only of eight to ten inches, 

 the trees may be removed biennially, and I may add 

 that, in soils in iv/t ieh trees grow slowly, root-pruning 

 is more advantageous than removal, as less check is 

 given to vegetation. 



DOUBLE GEAFmfG OF FEUIT TEEE8. 



I have not been able to find this mode of culture, 

 likely to be so beneficial to fruit gardens in England, 

 alluded to by tlie many authors of works on fruit trees ; 

 it may be " as old as tlie liills," and have no claim to 

 ori^nnality, but fvw so-called new ideas have. I can 

 iinly tberetnre state how it originated here some fif- 

 teen (ir twenty years since. I am not aware that it 

 has been [iraetised by the clever fruit tree cultivatore 

 of France and Belgium; if so, it has been recently 

 copied from English in-aetice, but I never remember 

 having seen it carried out. 



Its liistcirv, briefly told, is as follows : — I observed, 

 wlien biiddinij; and f^rafting pcai-s ontheciuince ?tiiek, 

 that S(inie varieties did not grow freely on that stock, 

 when budded (ir grafted; particnlarly the Gansel's 

 Ber;^aniot and the Autumn Hcrganiot, the Seekel, the 

 Marie Louise, Kniij;lit's Monarch, and sonic others. 

 Now, as the lirNt and last mentioned are notorious for 

 their shy bearing (jiialities, while the trees ai'e youn;;. 



