SEEDLING EEUITS 125 



SOW seeds only from the finest and best developed 

 fruits of the highest quality. If certain fruits can be 

 raised which will ripen consecutively through the season, 

 the task of making a choice will be much simplified to 

 the amateur, and the grower will be relieved from a 

 very troublesome business, i.e. that of knowing what to 

 grow. 



THE BIENNIAL EEMOVAL OF PEUIT TREES 

 WITHOUT ROOT-PRUNING 



All trees that are inclined to make very fibrous roots, 

 such as plums, pears, or quince stocks, and apples on 

 Paradise stocks, may be lifted — i.e. removed biennially 

 or occasionally, if their growth is not too vigorous, 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 yea/r, and a shovelful or 

 two of compost given to them, form delightful little 

 trees.' The most delicate sorts of apples, such as 

 Golden Pippins and Nonpareils, may thus be cultivated 

 in the most unfavourable soils ; and Roses, more par- 

 ticulariy Bourbon Roses, on short stems, and Hybrid 

 Perpetuals, removed annually in the autumn, giving to 



' In moist retentive soils the fruit-spars of small trees become 

 covered with moss ; some powerful lime sprinkled over them will 

 destroy it ; this is best done in foggy weather in winter. 



