. The Cottage gardener. Gardening; Gardening. THE COTTAGE GARDENER. [August 15. gradually enlarge from the lowest lateral shoots to the ex- tremity of those highest, and it should he devoid of a strag- gling or rambling habit. Secondly, the plant should be dis- posed to bloom freely and numerously. Thirdly, its blossoms should stand out clearly from the foUage, on short strong flower-stalUs, so as to be presented boldly and THE FKUIT-GARDEN. Ripening the Wooo of Frdit-ibees.âAccording to the ma.\ims of some of our gardeners of former days, It was time enough to think of this w
. The Cottage gardener. Gardening; Gardening. THE COTTAGE GARDENER. [August 15. gradually enlarge from the lowest lateral shoots to the ex- tremity of those highest, and it should he devoid of a strag- gling or rambling habit. Secondly, the plant should be dis- posed to bloom freely and numerously. Thirdly, its blossoms should stand out clearly from the foUage, on short strong flower-stalUs, so as to be presented boldly and THE FKUIT-GARDEN. Ripening the Wooo of Frdit-ibees.âAccording to the ma.\ims of some of our gardeners of former days, It was time enough to think of this when the leaves first conimeuced decay, and consequently we find urgent re- commendations by those of the old school to uso the besom pretty freely in October. " Brush ofl' the leaves to assist in ripening the wood," is an old maxim, now tolerably obsolete ; but, with the repudiation of this sdly idea, the fact in question should be seriously grappled with ; for, perhaps, a broken crutch is better than no crutch at all. We will not go so fai- as to assert, that sweeping off a iev decaying leaves iu early autumn may not have the eiioct ol rendering the buds of those leaves still re- mammg more perfect, by carrying more fully out the pnnoiple of accretion; but all this only proves a previous neglect. Neglect, we repeat, for if light and heat, acting on the fully exposed surface of the leaf of tender trees, be so essential to the proper organization ot the bud, (and who shall disprove it â ') why should an improper amount of the annual spray bo reserved during the thinning or disbudding season ; only iu the first place to create mutual injury, and in the second, to cause a more troublesome course of winter prunin" than there is a real necessity for? It is well known what a controversy has been carried on for many months, in the pages of contemporary horticultural periodicals, about the coverimj or non-ivverhiy nf fniit-tm-s, in order to protect the blossom, and to
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