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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
Into growth. No heat force should he applied, if it can he avoided, to aid 
the growth. Water should he given sparingly until they make active 
growth, and then it may he freely applied. They are easily managed in an 
ordinary window of a sitting-roon, as watering is the chief thing requiring 
attention ; though, on the other hand, they must not he allowed to become 
“ sogged,” as some of the gardeners term it, meaning thereby, so thoroughly 
saturated with wet that the plants are injured. 
Quo. 
REMARKS ON FRUIT TREE CULTURE.—No. 16 . 
The young trees, prepared as before directed, may now be considered 
ready for lifting and transplanting into the prepared border—that is, sup¬ 
posing such border to be ready at the proper time, and that it is desirable 
to plant at once; but if the trees are not cramped for room in their present 
quarters, and there is no other urgent cause for their removal, they will be 
quite as well, and even better, if left another twelve months. In either case 
the necessary manipulation of the branches will be the same, but the effects 
different; in point of fact, this is the starting stage at which it will be 
necessary to determine the sort of treatment to which it is intended to sub¬ 
ject the tree. 
In the first place, if removed at this stage of growth, the necessary lifting 
and transplanting will produce just that sort of check which will induce the 
formation of fruitful wood and spurs ; but, on the other hand, by leaving the 
tree in its present position another year, and encouraging a free development 
of growth, great additional strength will be gained, together with an almost 
equally near approach to the fruiting condition of growth. The question, 
therefore, arises as to whether it is desirable to commence at once a course of 
treatment which will tend towards the production of a precocious develop¬ 
ment of fruit, or whether, as is allowed to be best in the animal economy, 
the child shall be allowed to gain additional strength before being put to 
perform the heavier parts of the labour of life. The reply to the question 
must be determined by the bearing of various contingent circumstances. 
If, for example, time is an object, and it is desirable to have as much return 
of fruit as possible from a limited space, it will be necessary to commence 
at once that course of treatment which will prevent a free development 
of woody growth, and encourage weaker and more fruitful wood; but 
as, when this is the case, it will be necessary, in order to carry out the 
system thoroughly, that the range of the roots should be considerably cir¬ 
cumscribed, I will not at present enter into that part of the subject, since 
the bearing of my present remarks is confined to trees which are to be 
transferred to a large and well-made border, in which there is ample room 
for the development and range of the roots. I also pre-suppose ample 
head room, because it will be of very little use to go to the expense of 
forming such a border as the one I have described if it is not intended to 
give ample room for the development of the branches as w T ell as the roots ; 
not but that in such a case it may be quite possible, by a judicious applica¬ 
tion of the curbing system to the growth of the tree, to keep it within cir¬ 
cumscribed bounds, but it would be an unprofitable manner of expending 
labour, for the same end may be attained to a much greater profit with far 
less labour and expense. 
There is much to be said in favour of an ample space for both roots and 
branches. I believe that one tree favourably situated in this respect, with 
