90 
TUB COTTAGE GARDENER AND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN'S COMPANION, May 12, 1857. 
With regard to the trees, I pruned them thoroughly,old 
as well as young, and then by the adoption oi me following 
scraper, to which a handle was attached, I scraped all the 
trees in the orchard from the moss and dirt which had 
accumulated upon them. Those trees that had holes 
scraped out with the pointed end of 4jie scraper, and 
afterwards filled the hole with tar and resin, put on cold. 
Those stumps that were left were coated over likewise, to 
prevent bleeding. 
NEW BOOK. 
The Vegetable Kingdom.*—W e promised last week to 
publish an extract from this work, wi.tli a specimen of the 
illustrations. We now do so, and with increased satisfaction, 
for a more attentive perusal confirms our first impression 
that it is the best and will he the most popular work that 
has ever been published in English on the natuial anange- 
ment of plants, their qualities, and uses. 
“ Order II.—DILLENIACEJE— The Dillenia Family. 
The four principal rules adhered to were 
1. Not to allow any branch to cross another. 
2. To study the habit of the tree being pruned, and as 
near as possible to cut accordingly. 
3. To have the Apple trees well cut out in the centre, 
something in resemblance to an umbrella. 
4. To cut away an under branch .before an upper one. 
Difference in produce between the two years : 
First year, Apples and Pears 5£ bushels. 
Second year, Apples and Pears 185 .bushels. Sold at 3s. 
per bushel, average. 
Thus the gain upon the whole by the above treatment 
was considerable. £ D 
Cost of soda, 4 cwt. at Os. 1 
20 bushels of soot at 6d. 0 
Pruning trees 
s. 
4 
10 
3 
d. 
0 
0 
4 
8 17 4 
Apples 
1 ) 
£ 
s. 
d. 
8 
3 
4 
27 
15 
0 
35 
18 
4 
; 8 
17 
4 
27 
1 
0 
I have not added the 18s. I received for bhe sheep grazing. 
My ideas were taken from the reading of Professor 
Johnson’s Agricultural Chemistry.—W. H, Warner, Oak- 
lands, Ross , Herefordshire. 
FINE SPECIMEN OF DENDBOBITTM FIM- 
BBIATUM. 
In one of the plant houses .at Ghatsworth there is now in 
bloom a marvellous specimen of JDendrobium Jinibriatiim. 
This Orchid was imported from the East Indies in the year 
1818, and is now eight feet in diameter and four feet in 
height. It is bearing the enormous quantity of 250 spikes 
of flowers. Each spike has from ten to twelve blooms. It 
is indeed a magnificent sight, worthy of any amateur’s or 
admirer of flowers’ time to travel miles to see it. Standing 
as it does at one end of the old aquatic house, elevated, and 
surrounded by various exotics, if viewed from the opposite 
end of the house its drooping branches seem to he over¬ 
burdened with the weight of flowers. It appears to the -eye 
like one sheet of gold, and is considered the finest specimen 
in England.—A Friend. 
Fig. 18. Hibbertia grossularisefolia. 
“This order is composed of trees,shrubs, or under shrubs, 
some of which are climbing. The Leaves are alternate, 
very rarely opposite, simple, without leaflets at their base, 
which is frequently widened, and forms a sheath round the 
stem; they are rough and leathery, sometimes entire and 
sometimes toothed, and furnished with strong veins, which 
run straight from the mid rib to the edge. The Flowers 
are either solitary or in clusters, sometimes opposite to the 
leaves. In some the stamens and pistils are in the same 
flower, and in others separate. The Calyx is permanent, 
with five deep segments, two of which are exterior, and 
three interior. The Corolla is commonly of five petals, the 
margins of which are placed one over the other (imbricated) 
and inserted beneath the ovary. The Stamens are very 
numerous, indefinite in number, either distinct or arranged 
* A Natural History of the Vegetable Kingdom and its Products 
By Robert Hogg, Eeq. W. Kent and Co., London. 
