PYEAMIDAL APPLE TEEES ON THE PAEADISE STOCK 75 



for pyramidal pears, p. 10, and training them in a- 

 proper direction, is all that they will want. Pyramids 

 on the Paradise stock may be planted six feet apart in 

 ■confined gardens ; six feet will give them abundance 

 of room ; but if, owing to the soil being of an extra 

 fertility, they are found to require more, the trees, if 

 they have been root-pruned, may be removed, almost 

 without receiving a check, even if they are twenty years 

 old. This is a great comfort to the amateur gardener 

 who amuses himself with improving his garden; for 

 how often does a favourite fruit tree, which cannot be 

 removed, prevent some projected improvement ! 



Apples differ greatly in their habits of growth ; 

 some are inclined to grow close and compact, like a 

 cypress — these are the proper sorts for pyramids; 

 others, horizontally and crooked — these should be 

 grown as bushes; others again are slender and thin 

 in their growth, so that, to form a good pyramid of 

 these slender-growing varieties, it is necessary to begin 

 the first year with a young tree, and to pinch the 

 leader as soon as it is six inches long. If by any 

 neglect the lower part of the pyramid be not furnished 

 with shoots, but have dormant buds, or buds with only 

 two or three leaves attached, a notch must be cut, 

 about half an inch in width, just above the bud from 

 which a shoot is required. The notch must be cut 

 through the outer and inner bark, and alburnum, or 

 first layer of wood ; and if the shoot or stem be young 

 — say from two to four inches in girth — it may be cut 



