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Show CHIEF ART. In Clardanloa- Cou.l.u In llaklng Ilia 1'lanla draw loor Way. The chief art In gardening consists In not allowing your planta to havo their own willful way, but to make them behave aa we want them to. Vlnea generally make desperate at-tempts at-tempts to get to tho top of a bush or treo that tbey may twlno around, and the lower portion la nothing but a aerlea ot naked ttemt. When we aet them to trelllaet, wo want thli proceeding pro-ceeding reversed. We desire as many branches close to tho ground as at tho extreme upper portion of tho polo or frame on which they are supported. Tho educated farmer understands how to do thla. Tbo growera of grapea under glass haa to know how to do It, aa other wlae he would have grapes In tbs apex of tho roof and nowhere olae. Ho applies the same principle to tho growth ot flowering vlnea out ot doors as to hla grapes under glass, or to the grapea In the outdoor garden, for that matter, with equal results. Indwd, thero could bo few better methods at learning whether one haa a real gardener gar-dener or only a wolf In aheep'a clothing, cloth-ing, than by noting whether be allows the honeysuckles to grow In crow's nesia unuor me coping 01 tno plaxxa front, or whether the branchea aro of equal strength from apax to the ground. And yet the art Is very almple. It la almply to pinch out tho apex of the atrong growing thoota tbat want to get up still higher, and leave tho struggling shoots at the base alone. Tho growing force, tuddenly chocked by the topping of tho upper thoota, hat to be expended aomewhere, Jutt as the sudden itoppage of water being forced through a plpo may bunt that pipe. It la diverted to tho lower ami weaker ahoota, which become, before tho aoaton It over, aa atrong aa the upper onca. In tho handa of a good gardener, a grape vine trellla will have fruit over every part of Itt lurfsce and have as fine fruits at the apex as at tho bate. Ilut how rarely do wo tea these mattert ot the art, and how almple tho art la, after alt |
