I never see anything like proper pyramid pruning in this country. Having given attention to the mode pursued by our brother gardeners in France, permit me to give critically the mode so followed; that those who like to have trees of that character may, by time and attention, easily supply themselves with them in this country. The process consists in shortening the first year's shoot of the Apple or Pear tree, called the graft shoot, to one foot at a full bud. The first year, on pushing out in spring, rub off all laterals except four or five at the bottom of the stem, to garnish it with a first tier of branches for future years. Train the leader to a stick quite perpendicular. The next winter proceed as before, by shortening the leader to twelve inches at a full bud. Remove all intermediate buds as before down the leader, and leave those at the bottom to form a second tier of laterals; and shorten the lower tier to an outside bud. After the second year shoot, the summer pruning consists in rubbing off the laterals, forming now the lower tier, above and below the branch, so as to keep them as horizontal as possible. Strengthen those which grow horizontal, by pinching off the ends if necessary.

Each tier should be, as near as may be, twelve or thirteen inches, one above the other; and if possible, the branches of each succeeding tier should be so grown as to be above the intervals of the tier below. Thus, as we see in France, this training makes a beautiful symmetric tree; which, without Mousing the borders, may, when planted at distances of twenty or more feet, adorn the flower beds of a geometric garden, with presenting to the eye of taste the offerings of Flora and Pomona at one and the same time. - Wm. Mason, in London Gardeners' Chronicle.