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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
is reckoned from the time of working the stocks, which are what are termed 
free stocks, being generally three years old at the time of working. 
“ I perhaps ought to say that I find Quince and Paradise stocks lift quite as 
well as Crab or Pear, but it is not so with Cerasus mahaleb. This I do not find 
lift at all well in any soil. After the trees get large, every bruise or scratch 
in the roots becomes attacked by a fungus, which always produces bad health 
and frequently death. The following are— 
“ Pyramid Peabs :—Doyenne d’Ete, age ten years, height 19 feet, spread 
8 feet, diameter of stem near the ground 6 inches. Broom Park, age nine 
years, height 15 feet, spread 9 feet, diameter of stem 6 inches. Urbaniste, age 
nine years, height 16 feet, spread 7 feet, diameter of stem 4 inches. Doyenne 
Robin, age nine years, height 17 feet, spread 6 feet, diameter 4 inches. Soldat 
d’Esperen, age nine years, height 13 feet, spread 5 feet, diameter 4 inches. 
Beurre Diel, age ten years, height 14 feet, spread 8 feet, diameter 5 inches. 
Doyenne Boussoch, age eight years, height 13 feet, spread 7 feet, diameter 
5^ inches. 
“Apples: —Gravenstein, age nine years, height 13 feet, spread 6 feet, 
diameter 6 inches. Golden Pearmain, age eight years, height 13 feet, spread 
6 feet, diameter 4 inches. Mannington’s Pearmain, age eight years, height 
11 feet, spread 6 feet, diameter 4 inches. Irish Peach, age nine years, height 
12 feet, spread 7 feet, diameter 4 inches. Rymer, age nine years, height 
11 feet, spread 5 feet, diameter 3£ inches. Stunner Pippin, age nine years, 
height 12 feet, spread 5 feet, diameter 3£ inches. Waltham Abbey Seedling, 
age nine years, height 11 feet, spread 7 feet, diameter 5 inches. Keswick 
Codlin, age nine years, height 10 feet, spread 6 feet, diameter 4 inches. 
“ I will now give a list of a few trees removed last season to a new garden 
about three miles distant, and doing well . 
“ Jargonelle, age ten years, height 17 feet, spread 10 feet, diameter 6 inches. 
Gansel’s Bergamot, age ten years, height 18 feet, spread 8 feet, diameter 
5 inches. Urbaniste, age nine years, height 14 feet, spread 9 feet, diameter 
4^ inches. Thompson’s, age ten years, height 15 feet, spread 5 feet, diameter 
4 inches. Passans de Portugal, age ten years, height 16 feet, spread 7 feet, 
diameter 4£ inches. Louise Bonne of Jersey, age ten years, height 16 feet, 
spread 6 feet, diameter 5^ inches. Shobden Court, age ten years, height 
17 feet, spread 7 feet, diameter 5 inches. Gravenstein, age nine years, height 
12 feet, spread 8 feet, diameter 6 inches. All these have been very much pruned 
so as to bring them into shape. 
“ The other Apples removed last season cannot be strictly called pyramids, 
they are more properly bush trees; many varieties of Apples I find rather difficult 
to keep leaders to, so as to form pyramids. I will, lastly, give a few lifted last 
season, to be relifted this, for removal next to the new garden. These are some 
which have not been regularly lifted, and therefore require two liftings to insure 
their doing really well after removal; they are all standards, with stems from 
4 to 6 feet. They were not commenced with young. Orange Bergamot, age 
twenty-five years, height from ground 25 feet, spread 20 feet, diameter 1 foot. 
Catillac, age fifteen years, height from ground 25 feet, spread 15 feet, diameter 
10£ inches. Glou Morceau,. age eighteen years, height from ground 23 feet, 
spread 13 feet, diameter 10 inches. Broom Park, age sixteen years, height 
from ground 19 feet, spread 14 feet, diameter 9 inches. Knight’s Monarch, 
age sixteen years, height from ground 17 feet, spread 13 feet, diameter 
7 inches. Eyewood, age sixteen years, height from ground 23 feet, spread 
13 feet, diameter 8 inches ; with many others sixteen to eighteen years old 
with large spreading heads. 
“ If it is necessary to lift a large tree which has not been previously lifted, 
