. Cassell's popular gardening. Gardening. 3e CASSELL'S POPULAR GARDENING. Nectarine are the Brompton or Mignonne and the Mussell Plum. These are raised by layering the growths from established stoles in the nursery; when rooted they' are detached, trimmed, and shortened back to the height of twenty to thirty inches, and planted out in lines to make a year's growth; the following autumn they are taken up, divided into two sizes, and again planted in rows three feet apart, where they remain until after they are worked. During the following July and August all that are growing kindly are budded w
. Cassell's popular gardening. Gardening. 3e CASSELL'S POPULAR GARDENING. Nectarine are the Brompton or Mignonne and the Mussell Plum. These are raised by layering the growths from established stoles in the nursery; when rooted they' are detached, trimmed, and shortened back to the height of twenty to thirty inches, and planted out in lines to make a year's growth; the following autumn they are taken up, divided into two sizes, and again planted in rows three feet apart, where they remain until after they are worked. During the following July and August all that are growing kindly are budded with the approved kinds of Peaches and Nectarines, the buds remaining dor- mant until the following spring, when they start into growth. (Shield-budding, the mode generally practised in the working of stone-fruit trees, has been fully described and illustrated under Roses and elsewhere.) The stocks are then cut back to the bud, as at a, and the sumnier's growth results in the production of a "Dwarf Maiden" (Fig. 6), varying from two to four feet in height. in this form many growers, who object to cutting back to four buds, prefer buying and taking them under their own manage- ment. Early in the autumn the maidens are lifted, root-pruned, and planted out on well-prepared quarters, in rows four feet apart and two feet from each other; here they remain in- tact until the following spring, and when all danger of severe frost has passed away, the first barbarous act, that of cutting them back as shown to within Jour or five buds of the working, is committed, the Pig. 6.—Dwarf Maiaen. to the formation of a pleasing-looking tree with tea to twelve shoots, something like the annexed sketch (Fig. 8), and the nursery trainer's work is at an end. Standard trees are made in the following waj:—When the time arrives for budding, the young stocks intended for double work- ing are budded close to the ground with a free-growing plum; the bud remains dor- mant untU the spring, when
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