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Young fruit-trees which do not take readily to their new place, often 
become hide-bound while under the check of removal. These may be 
assisted by scoring the bark longitudinally with the point of a knife. 
Both cherry and plum trees submit to this treatment, if done in the 
summer. 
Peach, nectarine, and apricot trees are seldom subjected to decorti¬ 
cation, because they are all so liable to gum; but scoring may be per¬ 
formed on them, provided it is done in July, and along the under side 
of any smooth branch which appears hide-bound. 
The best kind of tool for disbarking apple or pear trees, is made on 
the principle of a cooper’s hand-plane, or a wheeler’s draw-shave ; and 
if the rough bark be only taken off, the stem and branches should also 
be scored with the point of of a pruning-knife. A cutting instrument 
with a blade like that of a table-knife, with its point bent round rather 
acutely, is necessary to remove the bark in the angles between the 
stem and branches. 
LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 
LETTER V. 
The greenhouse is about thirty feet in length, and fifteen feet 
wide, inside measure, and is heated by one flue carried round under 
the grated paths. Fire is never used but to keep out frost, the plants 
never requiring to be excited by artificial heat; indeed the more tem¬ 
perate the air of the house is kept, the better the plants thrive, and 
also the better answer the purpose of the possessor. The chief art in 
the management of greenhouse plants, is to raise them to a flowering 
state, and in that state to keep them. Luxuriant growth, and rampant¬ 
growing shrubby plants, are unfit for a greenhouse, unless they can 
be dwarfed so as to be convenient. By keeping them in a small and 
shapely form, a greater number and greater variety may be kept in the 
same space, without crowding or showing unsightly irregularity. 
But there is always, and necessarily, much diversity in the relative 
height of greenhouse plants : some, as many of the heaths, diosmas, 
and other heathlike plants, begin flowering as soon as they are five or 
six inches high : these occupy the lower shelves of the stage, or are 
placed on the front and end platforms near the glass. Others rise 
higher before they present their flowers, as many of the geraniums, 
camellias, &c.; and these of course are set higher up on the stage, so 
that the whole shall present a regularly graduated bank of foliage, 
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