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the regular course of pruning, all branchlets that shew 

 fruit-buds only, or are thought to contain no others, are 

 sacrificed without mercy. This would appear absurd to 

 any one not a horticulturist, but, if such branchlets do ex- 

 ist, their excision is quite prudent ; for wood buds or shoots 

 are like pumps, to draw sap towards the branchlets ; and if 

 they be wanting, the blossom on the twig commonly fails to 

 set ; or if the fruit form, it soon falls off, or, at all events, 

 is deficient in size and flavour. From four to cight^oz^r- 

 buds arc left on each twig, according to its strength, and 

 a wood-bud at the extremity, when it can be there had, or 

 between two flower-buds near the extremity. When this 

 wood-bud expands into a shoot, the shoot is shortened to 

 an inch or so in length, and this remains as the pump for 

 drawing sap to the four or eight fruit-buds of the twig. 

 Other wood-shoots (as they are called), which may appear 

 below the fruit-buds, or nearer to the main branches, are 

 cut down to one or two eyes. Mr Mozard likewise resorts 

 to disbudding, although little or no notice is taken of that 

 practice in his work. From the style of this publication 

 being so different from that of Mozard in conversation, we 

 conclude that it had been redige by some " slender clerk,'" 

 not a practical horticulturist, and probably not aware of the 

 importance of disbudding. 



The trees in Mozard's garden are, in general, very free 

 from canker or gum. When the bark of a tree meets with 

 an injury, or when an abscess occurs, the diseased part is 

 dit cut; and the simple " ongucnt de St Fiacre, 11 com- 

 posed of cow-dung and loam, is applied, much in the same 

 way as practised in Scotland. 



The inclosure-walls on the side next the trees have a co- 

 ping, sometimes of stone and sometimes of timber, project- 

 ing about four or five inches. On the subsidiary or inte- 

 rior walls, the coping projects on both sides. The trees 



