2. A Crasane produced one hundred Pears, and the tree spread fourteen yards.

3. Another Crasane produced sixteen Pears, and the tree spread ten yards.

4. A Virgouleuse produced one hundred and fifty Pears, and the tree spread nine yards.

5. A Colmar produced one hundred and fifty Pears, and the tree spread nine yards.

6. Another Colmar produced seventy-nine Pears, and the tree spread ten yards.

7. A L'Eschasserie produced sixty Pears.

Compared with the above,-seven trees, beaded down and pruned according to his, Mr. Forsyth's method, leaving the foreright shoots in summer, they bore as follows, in the fourth year after heading:

1. A Louisbonne bore four hundred and sixtythree Pears, and the tree spread nine yards.

*Total 641.

2. Another Louisbonne bore three hundred and ninety-one Pears, and spread eight yards.

3. A Colmar bore two hundred and thirteen Pears, and spread six yards.

4. A Brown Beurre bore five hundred and three Pears.

5. Another Brown Beurre bore five hundred and fifty Pears.

6. A Crasane bore five hundred and twenty Pears.

7. A Virgouleuse bore five hundred and eighty Pears.t

The branches of the four last trees spread nearly in the same proportion as the first three.

A young Beurre the second year after heading bore 230 Pears, and a St. Germain 400.

All the above trees stood upon the same aspect and the same wall, and the fruit was numbered in the same year. The trees pruned according to the old practice covered, at least, one third more wall than the others.

By the above statement, the trees headed down bore upwards of five times the quantity of fruit that the others did; and they keep increasing, he says, in proportion to the progress of the trees.

Add to this vast encouragement and superiority of his pruning, that on the 20th June, Mr. Forsyth beaded several standards that were nearly destroyed by the canker; some of them were so loaded with fruit the following year, that he was obliged to prop the branches. In the fourth year after these standards were headed down, one of them bore 2840 Pears. On the same border were three standards, two whereof were St. Germains; the old trees was of the same kind. One of these trees, twenty years old, had five hundred Pears on it, a great crop for its size: so that there were on the old tree, which had been headed down not quite four years, 2340 Pears more than on the tree of twenty year's growth.

Mr. Forsyth gives a curious account of the recovering an old decayed Pear-tree, illustrated with a plate (VIII.)—Restored from an inch and half of bark, which now covers a wall sixteen feet high. In 1796, it bore 450 fine large Pears, and continues flourishing. The plate, however, is so badly drawn as to be scarely worth copying. In referring to the plate, he refers to "fruit-buds for the present year— others forming for next year; and old footstalks that bore the fruit last year;" but they are scarcely intelligible.

The following Mr. Forsyth gives as his method in training trees that are cut near to the place where they were grafted. Every year, in March, he shortens the leading shoot, to a foot or eighteen inches, according to its strength; this shoot, if the tree be strong, will grow from five to seven feet in one season; and if left to nature would run up without throwing out side shoots. The reason for thus shortening the leading shoot, is to make it throw out side shoots; and if done close to a bud, it frequently will cover the cut in one season, leaving only a cicatrix, as at f. f. f. in pl. VIII. which shews every year's growth and cicatrix. When the shoots are very strong, he cuts the leading shoot twice in

one season; by which he gets two sets of side shoots in one year; which enables him to cover the wall the sooner. The first cutting is performed any time during the spring, and the second the middle of June.

He directs, when you prune the trees, and cut the foreright shoots, which is to be in February or March, always cut close to an eye or bud, observing where there are the greatest number of leaves at the lower bud, and cut at them; for at the foot stalk of every one of these will be produced a flower bud. The same, he adds, will hold good in cutting the superfluous shoots on standard Pears. There will be in some sorts of Pears, from five to nine Pears in a cluster. This cutting is to be not later than March or first of April, because of the leading shoot beginning to grow the next topping, when the leading shoot grows quick enough to admit of it, will be the middle of June; and the length of the shoots are to be according to their strength, having from three eyes or buds, to six on a side.

The cankery part, he says, beginning to affect the new bark, he cut off all the canker at the bottom last year, and plastered the place with cow