The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . oot-pruning, and a chapter ofeight pages is devoted to the subject, p. 95, whereinroot-pruning is described as a necessity, and re-commended when needful, and full instructions arefurnished for its application in all cases. 2. Vourreviewer also states that a distorted figure of adwarf pyramid treeis given (p. 44) with the branchesat right angles, lS:c., in such a manner as we shouldimagine was never seen. This is also untrue. No distorted example of pyramid training, as taught bythe advocates of restr
The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . oot-pruning, and a chapter ofeight pages is devoted to the subject, p. 95, whereinroot-pruning is described as a necessity, and re-commended when needful, and full instructions arefurnished for its application in all cases. 2. Vourreviewer also states that a distorted figure of adwarf pyramid treeis given (p. 44) with the branchesat right angles, lS:c., in such a manner as we shouldimagine was never seen. This is also untrue. No distorted example of pyramid training, as taught bythe advocates of restriction and condemned by me, hasbeen given. Fig. 11 (p. 44), to which your revieweralludes, represents a common way of delineatingrestrictive pyramid training, and is a fac simile of anillustrative example entitled * Pyramid Training,given at p. 406 of the Gardeners Assistant {fig. 265),last edition, edited and revised by one of the presenteditors of the Gardeners^ Chronicle, who has evidentlyfailed to recognise his own adopted and approvedexample of training, and permitted the reviewer to. Fig. 112.—NARCISSUS TRIDYMUSX. in pure Daffodils ; and yet the stamens are in oneseries, and spring from near the base of the tube, butnot quite so near to the ovary as in the common At present it varies with two tothree flowered scapes—perhaps four or five flowers ona stalk may be possible to us if we grow it under thebest conditions. What a long vista of agreeable pos-sibilities does not this solitary seedling open out tous ! Hitherto we have been content with one Daffo-dil on a stalk, feeling that as a Mede and Persian-likefatahty, to be unquestionably accepted : and now thespell is broken ! We may even hope now to raiseseedlings with blossoms almost as large and as lovelyas N. maximus, N. Emperor, N. Empress, or , and, as faithful old Parkinson says,many on a stalke. Solitary flowered Daffodilswill ever be dear to us ; nevertheless, we shall now,follow
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