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THE FLORAL WORLD AND GARDEN GUIDE. 
each alternate tree may be removed and replanted, thus making the 
original plantation twice its former size ; they will tlien stand at 
three feet apart. The same operation may he repeated in ten or 
twelve years, when the original plantation will be increased to four 
times its former size, having the trees six feet apart — that is, if one- 
fourth of an acre was commenced with, it would take one acre to 
contain all the trees after ten or twelve years. 
Dwaef Bush formed trees, either on the surface-rooting Crabs, 
Dc^idn, or Pommier de Paradis, are easily formed, and for small 
gardens are much to be preferred to any other form, as they are 
easily managed, bear abundantly, and the fruit are not subject to 
be blown down by storms. The trees may be planted exactly as we 
plant Gooseberry or Currant bushes, from one and a half to six feet 
apart, according to the kind of stock upon which they are worked. 
Keep the young shoots thin and regular, stopping them once in the 
season, say in June, and regulate them by the knife in winter. I 
am averse to too much summer pruning, as tending to check the 
flow of the sap too much, and thus causing the tree cells to be over- 
gorged with juice, which they have no means of evaporating. I have 
often received trees that have undergone frequent pinching during 
the summer, and have uniformly found them hide-bound and checked' 
in their health — so much so, that no after care could cure them or 
ever make them healthy trees. I refer especially to trees sent out 
by a great advocate of repeated summer pinching; they now stand 
in my nursery, a monu?nent of the man’s physiological acumen, and 
never will be anything but scrubs. Unless great care be taken to 
avoid depriving a tree too much of its leaves, its health, and the 
quality and size of the fruit, will be deteriorated ; for if we consider 
the great use of the leaves, w’e should hesitate to deprive a tree too 
much of them by repeated summer pinching, and take care to keep 
up a just equilibrium between the roots and branches. If you wish 
to keep your trees healthy, pray study the extending system a little. 
Without leaves you cannot have roots, and without roots your trees 
will perish. In my next I hope to give a well selected list of the 
best and most profitable sorts of apples to grow' in the Villa 
Garden. 
FLOWER BASKETS FOR THE DRAWING-ROOM. 
AM induced to say a few words in favour of the above 
for three reasons: first they look so charming if properly 
filled and arranged, secondl}’ because they last so long 
in bloom, and thirdly because they cost but little 
money, a reason by no means to be despised. I have 
three at present fitted up in the drawing-room ; one is high and forms 
a centre-piece, and the other two are not so high, and form a pair 
right and left of the centre or taller one, which in the evening is 
taken into the diuing-room and forms a pretty stand for the centre 
of the table. The advantage of stands of growing flowers over those 
