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case of black currants). Red Currants & Gooseberries need the tips of 

 their branches cut off & the side shoots cut back to a couple of eyes. 



Cut oft' laterals 

 where crossed. 



Pruning of Bush, Currant (Red) and Gooseberry. 



All decayed branches & too crowded wood shuld be removed. The 

 situations mostly given to bush fruits is along the edge of a path or next 

 to a fence. Eed currants & gooseberries will do with a shady position, 

 but of course bush trees will do best if planted where full advantage of 

 sun & air can be obtained. That being so it is probably a good plan to 

 plant if ground will allow the bushes in rows across the garden. Red 

 currants will do in a north or north-east position, & thus placed some 

 varieties will hang their fruits for a long period. Gooseberry sawrly 

 is troublesome in some districts, & watch shuld be kept for its first 

 appearance & finger & thumb impressions employed, althugh dress- 

 ings of soot & lime sprinked over the bushes in the morning are often 

 employed. Apples & pears when grown in small gardens shuld be on 

 dwarfing stock, & sorts which are not robust growers should be selected, 

 such as Lane's Prince Albert, Cox's Orange Pippin for apples, Louis Bonnee, 

 Doyenme de Cornice and others for pears. For Black Currants Boskoop 

 Giant, & Carter's Black Champion & Black Naples. For Red Currants 

 Raby Castle, Fay's Prolific. White Dutch is mostly cultivated amongst 

 White Currants. Gcoseberries offer much choice, Keepsake, Whinham's 

 Industry are much grown, whilst others of a dessert kind such as Cham- 

 pagne, Greengage are good varieties. 



Ques. 9. — For Walls of cottages : — W. A. Richardson, Gloire de 

 Dijon, Boquet d' Or. For Arches & fences, Dorothy Perkins, Crimson 

 Rambler, Longworth Rambler, Climbing Mrs. W. J. Grant, & many 

 others may be employed. 



I am uncertain whether you require form of growth or otherwise. 

 Form of trees may be standard, i.e. a stem about 3 feet to 4 feet high 



Form of Bush Rose. 



with a bush head, a short standard stem from 2 ft. 6 inches to 3 feet 

 & head. Bush, when the branches rise cut of the ground. Pillar or 



