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NOTICES OF AUTHORS. 



Every gardener is aware tliat trees will fruit the 

 first season after transplanting, just if they have had 

 the rudiments of the fruit formed in the bud before 

 transplanting, and should the blossom not be injured 

 by severe weather. Every gardener is aware, though 

 Sir Henry seems not, that all fruit trees, of any size, 

 form these rudiments the season after transplanting, 

 and that they invariably fruit the second season, if 

 the season suit the fruiting of the kind ; and every 

 gardener of any experience is capable, even without 

 Sir Henry's instructions, of removing a fruit tree of 

 considerable size, without injuring it so severely as 

 to prevent it fruiting both first and second season, 

 which it will do, and even mature fine fruit both 

 years, though during the first, under very unfavour- 

 able circumstances, it should scarcely be able to de- 

 velope leaves l-5th of the usual size, and though 

 these leaves wither and drop off long before the sum- 

 mer is ended, while the fruit remains to ripen on the 

 tree. This is a direct consequence of evaporation. 

 The thin leaves shrivel up in the ardent sun from 

 evaporation and want of sufficient supply by root- 

 suction ; and the bulbs of the fruit, from their mas- 

 siveness, contain sufficient moisture to resist wither- 

 ing till the night, when they drink the dews, and suck 

 up some little moisture from the roots, undiminished 



