74 



say thus much, in order to give our readers some 

 latitude for these operations, for the leisure period of 

 one person is not at all times the same as that of an- 

 other. Thus much for monthly arrangement of these 

 matters. 



Planting and pruning are now the chief operations, 

 providing the weather is open with regard to the 

 former. As a general maxim, however, we would 

 say plant in the succeeding month, if it has been 

 neglected at the best period, which, providing all 

 things are properly arranged, we hold to be the early 

 part of November. 



Whatever pruning may be necessary should, how- 

 ever, proceed without delay ; and this process is by 

 no means unimportant. The future form of the tree, 

 as well as a fructiferous habit, from the soil upwards, 

 are matters of prime consideration to those who aim 

 at a dwarfing system, which in modern gardening is 

 found to produce more good fruit in less compass 

 than the old and irregular mode. The fruit of the 

 better table kinds is found to be, moreover, of supe- 

 rior quality ; and the matter does not end even here : 

 first-rate vegetables may be grown within a few feet 

 of trees thus circumstanced ; whilst under the old 

 and unsystematic mode of sticking trees in any how, 

 and leaving them to themselves, the production of 

 both fruit and vegetables was rather precarious, and 

 the latter generally of inferior character. 



