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When all this has been comnleted, then fasten the trees to the wall by a few 
of the main branches only. This is to secure them from being blown about by 
the wind till the pruning time. I prefer the end of February or the first week 
in March for that operation. Where the walls are extensive the pruning may 
be done sooner, in order to get through the work. The fruit-bearing branches 
may be shortened-in, but care must be taken that a wood-bud is next the cut. 
Those that bore fruit the preceding year must be cut out entirely, excepting 
the leading shoot at the end of a main branch. As soon as a tree is pruned it 
should be trained and nailed to the wall, or if the wall is wired it should be 
tied to the wires. Then, when all the trees are gone through, the winter work 
on the Peach and Nectarine trees is completed. 
Diseases.— The only disease that I know of is that named gumming. It 
is a kind of gangrene, which first appears like a swelling, it then bursts and 
the gum exudes. If the border is made properly and the wood well ripened 
this disease will not appear : hence, if ever symptoms of gum show themselves, 
the only remedy is to examine the border. If it is wet at the bottom, let it be 
thoroughly drained ; if it is too full of manurial matter, remove that soil entirely 
and replace it with fresh maiden earth. Then, again, take great care that the 
branches are not wounded by the hammer or any other instrument. 
A. 
CARTER’S CHAMPION BROCCOLI. 
Of Broccolis that come in for use in April there is no scarcity, but good late 
kinds are by no means over-plentiful. Having tried most of the sorts that have 
come out of late years, I can strongly recommend Carter’s Champion as an ex¬ 
cellent late kind. From plants grown in a warm and forward situation I have 
this season cut fine heads up to the end of the first week in June. Had the 
plants been grown on a north border or other late situation, I have no doubt 
that they would have furnished a supply of good heads until the end of the 
third week in June, by which time Cauliflowers begin to come in plentifully. 
In general about the middle of June Cauliflowers begin to come in with us 
here; sometimes, according to the season, we have them a few days earlier, 
and, at other times, a few days later. I have never had any other kind so good 
at so late a season as I had Carter’s Champion this season. I have not yet 
tried Cattell’s Eclipse, but, if it be later and better than Champion, it is a very 
valuable kind indeed. 
For April and the early part of May we scarcely require better kinds than 
Knight’s Protecting and Dilcock’s Bride Broccoli. What we most need is a 
Broccoli to come in from the middle of May to the middle of June. Carter’s 
Champion is the best for this season that I have yet met with, but I hope to 
see something better still. 
Stourton. M. Saul. 
ON THE DECAY OE APRICOT TREES. 
It is well known that the large limbs of Apricot trees often die off, even 
when they are in leaf, and, perhaps, full of young fruit, while the other 
branches are healthy. This unfortunate decay occurs more or less according 
to the situation of the trees and the severity of the winters; but although 
much attention has been paid to the subject, the cause is not well understood. 
I have long been of opinion that the loss of the branches is the effect of frozen 
juice bursting the sap-vessels ; and such may be the case with many other 
kinds of trees and shrubs which are killed in winter, especially tender ones, of 
