. A dictionary of modern gardening. Gardening. which had sprung from their base, f, are loosened from the wall, and tied Fig. K eight or nine inches, taking care to cut at a wood-bud ; and at the time of dis- budding leave the best situated buds, and those nearest the base, for the future year's ;—Gard. Mag. Thinning.—Let there be a space of nine inches between every brace of fruit upon the weaker shoots, and sis inches on the stronger. See Thinning. Blistering of the Leaf.—This disease, which is called by some gardeners the Bladder Blight, and by the French la down to succeed the
. A dictionary of modern gardening. Gardening. which had sprung from their base, f, are loosened from the wall, and tied Fig. K eight or nine inches, taking care to cut at a wood-bud ; and at the time of dis- budding leave the best situated buds, and those nearest the base, for the future year's ;—Gard. Mag. Thinning.—Let there be a space of nine inches between every brace of fruit upon the weaker shoots, and sis inches on the stronger. See Thinning. Blistering of the Leaf.—This disease, which is called by some gardeners the Bladder Blight, and by the French la down to succeed them ; the other late- cloque, is occasioned by more moisture rals, fc, are tied in, and the uprightshoot being forced into the leaves from the. shortened, /, as before. ! roots than they can evacuate by expira- Now, or before, the side shoots will tion. Some gardeners, annotating upon have to be headed down once or even this opinion, expressed by the present twice, so as to increase their number, writer in the Gardener's Chronicle in and regularly cover the wall. The es-; June, 1845, have concluded, because tent to which this practice is carried the blistering appears more abundantly will depend on the height of the wall, when cold nights succeed to hot days, and the distance of the trees from each that they occasion the disorder; but other; the ultimate object being to pro- they are only the proximate cause; ducea fan form, as regular as possible, those cold nights reduce the expiratory of permanent wood, with no young power of the leaves, whilst the roots in wood thereon, besides what is produced a soil of unreduced temperature con- along the spokes of the fan, on their ' tinue to imbibe moisture, and to propel upper side, at about twelve inches I it to the leaves with undiminished force, apart, and the prolongation of the '. The blistering is, consequently, more Bhoots. extensive. That the force with which " In the course of the winter or spring the sap is propelled
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