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of the leafy termination common to the other. 
Such shoots as this must not be pinched on 
any account. In other respects, the apricot 
may be treated like the peach. 
Plums. — The treatment of the plum-tree 
is similar to that of the apricot. 
Vines. — The vine, as well as the peach, 
the pear, &c, has woody branches bearing 
fruit-branches. On each fruit-branch it is 
necessary to preserve two eyes ; one about an 
inch or two inches from the wood-branch, 
and the other rather nearer. These two eyes 
should produce two shoots. The leading 
branches, of a middling length, are themselves 
provided with eyes from which the fruit- 
branches issue. All these branches or shoots 
are, as with the other trees, subject to pinch- 
ing as soon as they are long enough to allow 
of its being done without injury to the fruit ; 
that is, after the grapes are somewhat formed, 
so that the pinching may be made at the ex- 
tremity of each shoot, one leaf above the last 
bunch. This pinching serves to invigorate 
the fruit and cause the breaking out of eyes 
behind. It is also necessary to take away all 
the tendrils which appear either on the branch, 
or near the bunches. Pinching the vine ex- 
cites the development of the grapes, which 
would be otherwise smaller ; it also invigo- 
rates and enlarges the fruit-branches which 
are to bear the following season. While the 
pinching of the vine is attended to, the prun- 
ing of the redundant; branches should not be 
forgotten. Two good fruit-shoots on each 
branch are sufficient. When the terminal 
shoot developed from the branch does not bear 
fruit, it should be pruned ; but the one at the 
base should be preserved, even though it be 
sterile. The first pinching of fruit-trees is 
not always sufficient; and it sometimes hap- 
pens, after the first .operation of this sort has 
been made, in a few days afterwards, new 
buds break out. The scions, also, which have 
been pinched, will often assume a degree of 
vigour approaching almost to grossness ; in 
this case, it is needless to say, the operation 
must be repeated. 
The preceding remarks are abridged from 
a paper, by M. Manoury, published in a 
recent number of the Ghent Annales. The 
subject is important, and has attracted some 
attention in this country. 
THE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY S MAY 
SHOW, 
The great features in the Floral exhibition, 
were the Indian Azalea, and orchideous plants, 
but the former especially eclipsed every thing 
that had been seen before ; Lady Antrobus 
showing twelve specimens that were cer- 
tainly never equalled before in public exhibi- 
tions ; whether we look to the noble size, the 
compactness, the healthy growth, or the size 
and quantity of bloom, they were unques- 
tionably the finest ever shown in public. The 
Heaths Avere grand, certainly, but we have 
seen them as fine before ; and the general 
collections were very noble ; the Geraniums 
only middling. A few of the French fancy 
things, that we cannot like, were extraordinary 
specimens of mechanical arrangement, more 
than one hundred and fifty sticks supporting 
the stems, in a sloping direction all round the 
pot, as well as the upright ones to support the 
interior shoots, so that a plant exhibited a sur- 
face of bloom more than two feet in diameter. 
Mrs. Lawrence's general collection was splen- 
did ; many of the specimens not, perhaps, to 
be matched in the world. Garraway & Co. 
of Bristol sent twelve Pansies, that stood 
alone in their glory ; but they were of such 
extraordinary size, that they would have been 
as much so, had they been surrounded by the 
usual quantity of ordinary specimens. Messrs. 
Veitch produced a really extensive collection 
of plants, which had travelled from Exeter 
without ruffling a leaf or a flower ; nobody 
could have believed it possible to accomplish 
such a journey without exhibiting any sign 
of damage. Pot-grown roses were, for the 
season, fine. The most remarkable specimens 
were, China, Triumphant, a dark rose- 
colour ; Mrs. Bosanquet, blush, or pink 
white ; Cramoise superieur, crimson; Arch- 
due Charles, light rose colour : Tea Roses, 
Pactolus, straw-colour, an&Bougeria, salmon: 
Bourbon Roses, Bouquet de Flora, dark- 
pink, and Armosa, light rose; we mention 
these as good in themselves, as well as beau- 
tifully grown. There was a new yellow 
climbing rose from China, very remarkable 
and showy, but the flower loose and ill-formed. 
Messrs. Lane & Paul exhibited the most, but 
the Chinese climber was from Standish & 
Noble, and it will be grown, no doubt, by 
every rose cultivator, though excessively ugly 
in its individual flowers ; and it will be an 
especial favourite, if it be a continuous 
bloomer. The Anemones were fine. The 
most remarkable, and at present the best of 
the season, are Porperina, a lovely blue-edged 
variety, as close and as round as could be 
wished; Eleanor, a good crimson variety ; and 
Fair Rosamond, pretty. There were some 
high-coloured hardy Rhododendrons, from 
Messrs. Rollisson, which are a great acquisi- 
tion ; and Messrs. Jackson of Kingston, and 
Gaines, of Battersea, showed one each, very 
good in their way — Campanulatum super- 
bum, by the former, was very striking ; and 
Marie Tagljoni, by the latter, was a French 
