54 Hints to the Conchtciors of the Horticultural Register. 
wall, and completely covers forty-eight feet long by twenty feet high ; 
the stem, a foot from the surface, measures three feet three inches, it 
there divides into three leading branches. It is in the greatest health and 
vigour, and is completely covered with beanng wood, from top to bot- 
tom, and from one extremity to the other ; although growing in about 
equal mixtures of black earth, clay, and small chalk, it has not failed of 
bearing an excellent crop for a great many years. 
I last year gathered 1800 very fine ripe fruit from it, besides gathering 
for tarts and thinning out 5376, making the total number of fruit set on 
it in one year 7176, or 598 doz. That number I counted myself, for I 
was anxious to ascertain the exact number. 
On the same wall, in the same soil, and on the same sort of stocks, are 
three Moorpark trees, which die off less or more, every year, and all the 
other parts of the tree quite healthy, except the part which dies off 
Can you, or any of your readers account for it ? — Is it because the Moor- 
park is of quicker growth, and requires more nourishment than the Brus- 
sels? If so, what is the best sort of stock for working the Moor-park on ? 
If you think the above worth inserting in the pages of your Register, 
I shall feel happy in being numbered amongst your correspondents. I 
should not have sent you an account of this tree, if it had not appeared 
in the Gardener's Magazine, Vol. V. page 587, incorrectly ; and consi- 
aering that a tree of such magnitude ought to appear what it really is. 
Wishing your new Register every success, 
I am Gentlemen, &c, &c. 
Arundel Castle Gardens, } Wm Deas. 
June 2nd, 1831. > 
Article V. — Hints to the Conductors of the Horticultural 
Registei'y By A. J. 
Gentlemen, 
Having accidentally just seen one of your Prospectuses, I 
cannot refrain from expressing my satisfaction, that a Work such as you 
promise, is on the eve of publication, and I sincerely hope it will meet 
with all that encouragement and support, which, if it fulfil the promises 
held out in your announcement, it will so abundantly merit. 
Perhaps, Gentlemen, I ought to apologize for troubling you with this 
letter, particularly as I have nothing new to communicate, but I hope 
you will accept as an excuse for my intrusion, my best wishes for your 
success ; and also, that you will, (if they seem vvorth it,) pay some atten- 
tion to the few following hints. 
Your book, Gentlemen, I should consider, is not likely to be confined 
to Practical Gardening, for I anticipate a much more extended circnla- 
