14 TREATISE ON THE CULTURE AND 



gins to turn. This will be more fullv treated of, when we 

 come to the management of Pearhes and Nectarines. 



1 have taken up several old trees from the walls, when 

 they have grown too near each other, and pknted them out as 

 Standards, at the same time shortening their branches to form 

 handsome heads, which are now lull of line fruit. These 

 trees would, by any other person, have been thrown to the 

 fagot-pile.* 



* Several of these trees, I saw, in 18GG, loaded with fruit so heavily as to 

 require props to support the branches. The old stumps, out of which Mr. Forsyth 

 had brought the new and pacific branches preserved iheir crooked and canker- 

 ed shape, while the new wood was ex»-remely luxuriant and clear. The same 

 I observed with respect to pears, apples, and other fruit trees, which were 

 bendin£r under the weight of their fruit, while, in the neighbouring gardens, 

 though onlv on the otlier side of the wall, the ov^rers had hardly fruit eriough 

 for their tables. 



