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Views and Reviews. 
The Fruit Garden.* 
The authors in their preface to this book, 
speaking about the enormous importations of 
fruit from abroad, say that it is a. “ serious 
reflection upon the intelligence and enter¬ 
prise of British fruit-growers ” that we 
should have to depend so largely upon other 
people for fruits which our country might 
very well produce. We think, however, that 
it casts ai reflection upon the depth of their 
pockets as much as upon their intelligence 
However, they consider that there are now 
signs that the people in this country are 
waking up to the importance and the possi¬ 
bilities of the subject, and that fruit culture 
is now ian optional subject in many schools. 
They therefore express their ideas on the 
subject with the object of assisting the cause. 
The hook runs to 507 pages, including two 
or more indexes, and is divided into thirty 
chapters. We note that one chapter is de¬ 
voted to the Gooseberry and the Medlar, 
while the Melon and the Mulberry jostle each 
other in. another. At first sight the associa¬ 
tion of these fruits, so widely apart in the 
natural classification, puzzled us a, little, but 
in looking down the list we find it merely due 
to their alphabetical arrangement, and one 
of the fruits alone was scarcely sufficient to 
make a chapter. 
The most important of all the hardy fruits, 
the Apple, has been dealt with at some length 
by Mr. George Bunyard, than whom there 
could he no better authority on the culti¬ 
vation of good Apples. In dealing with the 
question of stocks, we notice that under the 
Paradise he includes the Nonsuch, Broad 
Leaved, Doucin, or Dutch, and the true 
English varieties of the Paradise stock. 
These he considers superior to the French 
Paradise, with which they have been con¬ 
founded in the minds of cultivators for many 
years past. The French Paradise is a weak- 
growing variety that is scarcely serviceable 
for anything else except trees in pots 1 . TV ith 
regard to the longevity of trees on these 
stocks, he says that there are trees upon the 
Paradise stock fifty years old and in perfect 
health and vigour. * The stocks which he 
names can therefore he depended upon to 
carry trees that will bear well for at least 
•‘The Fruit Garden." By George Bunyard V.M U a 
,en Thomas, V.M H London : Pnb ished at the Offices of 
;ountrv Lite,” Tavistock Street, tovent Garden, W.C-, 
orge Newnes, Ltd., Southampton Street, Strand, W .C. 
u.° Price 21s., net. 
fifty years. They eventually give double the 
return that can be obtained from orchard 
trees', especially in good seasons. The fruits; 
he considers are larger than those obtained 
from orchard trees. This might, however, 
depend upon the skill of the cultivator and 
his attention to the orchard trees. 
The author advocates cultivating the Apple 
on walls in certain instances for the purpose 
of getting good fruits. We may state that 
north of the Cheviots the Apple is very fre¬ 
quently cultivated on walls on all aspects 
except north, though south walls are usually 
reserved for Cherries, Plums, Pears, and oc¬ 
casionally Peaches. These trees are usually 
grown in the fan-shape, and in gardens where 
they succeed they are well worthy the space 
accorded to them by heavy crops of large and 
shapely fruits. A little known plan of grow¬ 
ing fruits is on the roof of houses, as the 
author here mentions. The trees in ques¬ 
tion were planted against the walls of a shed, 
and the branches of the tree trained over the 
roof. We have heard other authors on this 
subject, hut the tree mentioned was the 
Pear, and the 'belief was that fruits lying 
upon some steady surface, such as that of 
a roof or the top of a wall, attained a much 
larger size than when hanging with their 
weight on their own stalk. The idea is well 
worthy of ventilation, for there are many 
similar instances of walls or roofs lying waste 
that might veiy well be utilised. 
Pear trees are frequently grown upon 
walls, even in the south, and they undergo 
strange forms of training. We have seen 
moist of them trained horizontally, hut a few 
instances occur of their being trained in fan- 
shape. A picture of a very large Pear tree 
in this hook is described as a veteran hori¬ 
zontally-trained Pear tree, but we think it 
combines the two methods of training just 
named, the lower portion of all the branches 
being in the fan-shape. 
The Checker tree (Pyrus Torminalis) is a 
fruit tree that will not be recognised by 
many gardeners, as it is seldom cultivated 
for the sake of its fruit. It is a British tree, 
and the author says it is not much known be¬ 
yond the Weald of Kent, but the best trees 
we have seen are in Hertfordshire. 
Mr. Thomas tackles the cultivation of a. 
number of subjects, including Cherries and 
Figs : , on walls and under glass. An illustra¬ 
tion of Cherries in 6-in. pots shows that when 
confined to a single stem, they are capable 
of giving a. good return from the space they 
occupy. So good an authority upon the cul¬ 
tivation of fruits may he depended upon as 
