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And now, with regard to the training-in of 
young shoots for future fruit-bearing purposes, 
we have to remember that although such shoots 
will occasionally produce fruit-buds on the 
first year’s growth, yet they are only exceptions, 
and caused by some extraneous pressure op¬ 
posed to nature ; and that, as a rule, the young 
shoots will only form fruitful buds the year 
succeeding that in which they are laid in. 
Here comes a very important consideration in 
the art of pruning. It is often recommended 
by the clever, practical men of the day 
to keep the trees thin of wood, and this 
is perfectly legitimate and good advice, 
because the practice affords a proper 
scope for the two series of young shoots 
—viz., those which are to produce fruit 
this year, and the young growth to succeed in 
due course. Hence it is obvious that pruning 
is not the hap-hazard affair which many affect 
to believe, but is capable of being reduced to 
scientific principles, in the carrying-out of 
which we have to study and maintain those 
which are indispensable, and make those con¬ 
ditions which are inevitable subservient to 
them. Such are pruning, training, washing, 
and attention to the roots, the latter an im¬ 
portant consideration in the case of fan-trained 
Plum trees, well furnished, and occupying 
large spaces of walls, which will bear a large 
amount of surface-dressing with great ad¬ 
vantage. On this subject I hope to enter rather 
more at large in my next paper, in which I 
purpose to treat of the Cherry as a wall fruit. 
—John Cox, Redleaf 
JASMINUM SAMBAC FLORE- 
PLENO. 
MONGST sweet-smelling plants, there 
are few that possess such an exquisite 
perfume as this Jasmine. Its scent is 
not so powerful as that yielded by some things, 
but there is a delicacy about it held by many 
people to be unequalled. It has not been so 
generally met with in gardens where there 
exists the means for growing stove plants as 
might be expected, the reason for which may 
be set down to its not being so showy-looking 
as many subjects, which, on this account, get 
the preference. There has, however, recently 
been a disposition evinced by many cultivators 
to select plants more in accordance with their 
intrinsic merits, than simply for their general 
appearance, however taking to the eye that may 
happen to be. This is evidently the right 
course, for although bright colours and pleas¬ 
ing forms will always, as they ought, 
be held in due estimation, yet it seems an 
anomaly to find, as is not unfrequently the 
case, whole houses full of plants, with very 
few that possess perfume worth the name. 
This plant, like the single form of Jasminuin 
Sambac , comes from India, and on that account 
requires a considerable amount of warmth. 
It has a somewhat straggling spare habit of 
growth, never occupying nearly so much space 
as many things—a decided gain, where room 
is an object. One advantage it presents is that 
though it never carries such a head of bloom 
Jasminum Sambac flore-pleno. 
at once, as many plants do, its flowers are pro¬ 
duced in succession over so long a period that 
all can be used for cutting, for which purpose 
it is well adapted. In bouquet work it is 
particularly useful. In size the flowers are 
not unlike those of a Tuberose, white in colour, 
and produced from almost every bit of growth 
that is formed. When a shoot bearing bloom 
is cut, the plant at once pushes young wood 
from the joint below, which in turn sets buds, 
when it has extended a few joints. It is a spare 
rooter, never requiring nearly so much room as 
the stronger-growing species, and is best adapted 
for training up a pillar in the stove or inter¬ 
mediate house, in which position it may either 
have its roots confined in a pot or be planted 
out, but in the latter case it should only have 
a limited space for its roots. 
I have found this species to grow more freely 
in good fibrous loam than in peat, with some 
fully rotten manure, and sand added propor¬ 
tionate to the nature of the loam. Cuttings 
may be struck at any time they can be ob¬ 
tained, but blooming almost continuously more 
or less during the season of growth, especially 
in the summer, there is often a difficulty in 
getting young shoots that are not disposed to 
flower, and on that account not well adapted 
for growing freely after they haye formed 
