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THE FRUIT GARDEN. 



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spring. I do not, however, mean to recommend to the gar- 

 dener to trust wholly, in any situation, for his crop of fruit to 

 the spurs produced by the above mode of pruning and training 

 the peach-tree. In every warm and favorable situation, I 

 would advise him to train the larger part of his young wood 

 according to the ordinary method : and in cold and late situa- 

 tions only, to adopt, to a great extent, the mode of manage- 

 ment above suggested. A mixture of both modes, in every 

 situation, will be generally found to multiply the chances of 

 success, and therefore neither ought to be exclusively adopted 

 or wholly rejected in any situation. The spurs must not be 

 shortened in winter or spring, till it can be ascertained what 

 parts of them are provided with leaf-buds." 



In situations where the earliest sorts of peaches and necta- 

 nnes will not ripen, without adopting this or any other method 

 of pruning to produce spurs, we would recommend only a 

 small portion of wall to be taken up with them, as the finer 

 sorts of pears and other fruits that will ripen, will repay the 

 owner much better than striving to produce fruits in a situation 

 decidedly unfavorable to them. However, we can see no great 

 nnpropriety in adopting the mixt method here recommended 

 by this intelligent horticulturist to a certain extent in cold 

 situations, but we think it entirely useless in the neighbour- 

 hood of London, or other equally favorable situations, and 

 we are convinced that the fruit produced by such a mode of 

 pruning will be much inferior to that which is produced on the 

 young wood entirely. 



Where peach or nectarine-trees have by bad management, 

 or other causes, become naked at the bottom of the wall, or 

 the middle of the tree, and are otherwise in a decaying state, 

 they may be headed down, and the soil renewed ; but if in a 

 very bad state, we would recommend the renewal of the bor- 

 ders, and the planting of young trees, as the most certain mode 

 of procuring both line fruit and healthy trees. 



NAILING AND ANOINTING THE BRANCHES OF PEACH-TREES. 



At whatever season the operation of pruning is performed, 

 whether in autumn, mid-winter, or spring, as soon as the trees 



