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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[ January, 
short, and the weak branches allowed to grow 
long. 
4. The strong branches should be depressed, 
and the weak ones elevated. 
5 . The buds upon the strong parts should 
be suppressed as early as possible, and as late 
as possible on the weak parts. 
6 . The strong branches should be nailed to 
the wall early, and close, but the nailing-in of 
the weak ones should be delayed. 
7. Suppress a number of the leaves upon 
the strong side, 
8 . Allow as large a quantity of fruit to 
remain on the strong side as possible, and 
suppress all upon the weak side. 
9. Bring forward the shoots on the weak 
side from the wall, and keep those on the 
strong side close to it. 
10 . Place a covering over the strong part, so 
as to deprive it of light, but not for longer than 
from eight to twelve days : if longer, the trees 
may lose their leaves. 
11. The sap developes branches much more 
vigorously upon a branch cut short than upon 
one left long. 
12. The more the sap is retarded in its circu¬ 
lation, the less wood and the more fruit-buds 
it will develop. 
13 . To retard extra luxuriance, uncover the 
foot of the tree in spring, cut away part of 
the roots, and then replace the earth. 
14 . Make fruit-spurs grow close to the 
branches by pruning them as short as possible; 
by so doing, the fruit will receive the direct 
influence of the sap, and acquire a larger de¬ 
velopment. 
15 . Keep the fruit with the fruit stem lower¬ 
most. 
16 . Place the fruit under the shade of their 
leaves during the entire period of growth. 
17 . The leaves elaborate the sap of the 
roots, and prepare it for the proper nourish¬ 
ment of the tree, and the formation of buds 
upon the boughs. A tree, therefore, that is 
deprived of its leaves is in danger of perishing. 
The above directions are useful; and I can 
testify, by twenty-seven years of experience in 
Peach and Nectarine culture, that the advice 
is good and valuable. Many trees will need 
next spring root-pruning or lifting,—the 
former is often best.—W. F. Radclyffe, Oke - 
ford Fitzpaine , Nov, 5, 
THE DUNMORE PEAK. 
f ROM inquiries received respecting this 
very excellent pear, I am led to think 
that it is not so generally known, nor 
so extensively grown, as i deserves to be. It 
have looked through several nursery catalogues, 
and I do not find it in any of them, which to 
me seems very strange, since I find they have 
many kinds very much inferior to the Dunmore. 
In Loudon’s Suburban Horticulturist it is thus 
described :—“Dunmore : Large,oblong-obovate, 
greenish yellow, and smooth brown russet, 
buttery and rich ; September; a hardy vigor¬ 
ous tree, and bears abundantly as a standard.” 
Downing, in his Fruits and Fruit Trees of 
Mmen‘ea,8ays, “The Dunmore is a large and truly 
admirable pear, raised by Knight, which has been 
introduced into this country from the Garden 
of the London Horticultural Society. It is 
a strong-growing tree, bears exceedingly well, 
and is likely to become a great favourite. Its 
blossoms resist even severe frosts.” A remark¬ 
able thing happened with the standard tree 
here, some ten or twelve years ago. It was 
full of blossoms during the autumn and winter 
—not merely a small spray or two, as one often 
sees on Pear and other trees, but the entire 
tree was in blossom ; and as the winter proved 
mild, as soon as some of the blossoms died off 
others expanded, so that there was more or less 
bloom all through the winter and into spring. 
The tree bore a light crop the ensuing season. 
I got the tree that is here, with a number of 
other fruit-trees, about 28 or 29 years ago, 
from Messrs. Knight and Perry, of Chelsea. With 
the exception of two or three standard Apple- 
trees, the whole of them proved true to name. 
—M. Saul, Stourton , Knaresborough, 
DR. HOGG APPLE. 
« HIS fine new Apple, which was raised 
from seed by Mr. Sidney Ford, of 
Leonardslee, near Horsham—who has 
for some years been a remarkably successful 
cultivator and fortunate exhibitor of hardy 
fruits — is described as bearing a close resemblance 
to the Calville Blanche. It was first exhibited 
in November, 1878, when it was brought before 
the Royal Horticultural Society’s Fruit Com¬ 
mittee, and it was so far approved that it was 
invited to be submitted again, after being 
