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 method of treating them is important.
 The causes which render it necessary tt train the pear against the walls in Eng land, are not offered in this country There they want to obtain all the hea they can, which this method does in tha country. Here the heat would be tot great against the walls. There they trair great number of nearly all the fruits fla against brick and stone walls and woodcr fences. as we'll as on espaliers or open trel lis-work. Here the sun is powerful enough to cultivate the peach, neotarint and apricot as standards, which there the, cannot do.
 STANDARD TRAINING TIE PEAR. A bud of one years growth will, oi course, be . straight shoot, eaving bud: srom the base to the extremity. As tho sap always seeks the highest point, those buds which are at tho end will grow most rapidly. If the shoot has been strong this would carry the limbs of the tree toe high, and leave the stem too slender therefore it is to cut back to the highI from which it is desired to have the high est limbs start, which should be &om tive and half to three feet.
 At the close of the second year the young tree will present trunk, from which four shoots or branches have pro cecdod, the central one being the highest At the next winters pruning, tue leading or higeest branch must be cut back con- siderably, and also the three other branch es, but the lower branches must be left rather the longest, because the force of the sap tends upward, and these will elongate slower The next summer the buds upon these limbs are pinched to three or tour leaves, except two at the ends, which are allowed to grow. At the end of tho third there are one or two additional branches grown from the first four branches s.t 1 the third winter these two are to be very much shortened. The same course should be pursued until the tree has attained about twelve feet when these terminal shoots, which are allowed to grow during | the summer, to draw up the sap into the fruit buds below them, are cut back to one eye every year.
 Il may be suggested, how can such a course be pursued with tree thirty or forty feet high. The answer is, that n good cultivator will not allow his trees to attain that night. While summer prun- ing generally holds the vigor of the tree in check, yet it is sometimes necessary to resort to root pruning After the tree has arrived at full size, all the pruning which is essential, is cutting back the growths upon the end of each limb, and trimming the spurs.
 The method of pruning the dwarf pear is the same as that upon the standard or free stock. By proper training the latter can be planted as near as dwarfs, and will succeed as well as when at a greater dis tanee.
 l THE CHERRY.
 This fruit is so uncertain crop when 1 left to itself, and yet so delicious, that it is well to devise some method of pruning which shall, if possible, remove the obsta- cles to its culture. It is of very vigorous habit, even upon poor soils, and in north ern climates does not always ripen its wood sufficiently to escape unscathed the vicis. situdes of winter, But we cannot make this complaint of it just here While the tree is forming, the young shoots should be directed properly. When it has at tained the height which is desired, the pruning should be done in way to check it's luxuriance A low, fiat, very rich and rather damp soil is unsuitable to this fruit Root pruning will accomplish this check ing, but a mora mild operation may be at tempted first, and the former used as the next resort. If the pruning is done afte, the buds have swollen, wo may arrest its great vigor The morello varieties beal fruit upon the wood of the previous sea son, and regard should be had to supply of new wood, and that which has produced should be cut out.
 I THE VINE. TT l Totally different from that of any of tho plants to which wsphave referred, is tn, pruning of the. vine. As the size ant quality of tho bunch and berry arc influ enced considerably by the strength of th' cane, it is evident that, for constant fruit fulness, succession of young wood mus be secured. When the yineis planted i should be cut down so as to leave one eyt to grow. Some accident might destroy this, however, and two or three should D, , left at the fall pruning, when those whicl , are superAucus should Dc destroyed. lju ring November it should be cut back t
 five eyes; if it is delayed until spring th' wound will bleed, weakening the vine an' I causing the shoots to start with less vigor This stump will show five branches whiel
 are spread out on the trells like a fam At the next fall pruning these arms ar
 shortened, leaving two eyes upon each and the next summer thc vine nossesse