THE GARDENER. 



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Pruning and general Manageriient of the 

 Apple-tree, 



The trees are propagated on the crab ov free stock, 

 and also on the Paradise, Doucin and French Para- 

 dise ; the three last being best adapted for dwarf 

 trees, and for those intended to be planted where the 

 roots require to be kept near the surface. In other 

 respects all that is directed ^yith regard to the manage- 

 ment of the pear-tree, is equally suitable in the case 

 of the apple-tree. 



Monthly Opeeatioxs. 



If the kitchen garden only were under considera- 

 tion, I should commence with one of the late autumnal 

 months, in which preparations are made by digging, 

 trenching and manuring, and the sowing of some 

 seeds for the ensuing year ; but as the work in the 

 Floral and Fruit departments (which are compre- 

 hended in my plan) commences with the year, when 

 the kitchen garden is also exhibiting symptoms of ani- 

 mation, I shall begin, in conformity with the general 

 custom, at the first month. 



JANTJAKY. 



The stove and greenhouse plants, which are in a 

 state of perfect repose and lose their leaves, such 

 as Gloxinia, Achimenes, Gesneria, &c. should not be 

 watered at all until they begin fo show signs of life. 

 Pelargoniums, which do not lose their leaves, though 

 they make no growth until February, require a little 

 water to keepL them alive, but not to forward them. 

 When the mould in the pots becomes so dry as to be 

 easily reduced to dust with the fingers, you may water, 



