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should be once or twice pinched back, to promote the formation of 

 flower-buds, and to keep the trees well furnished, for if lean they do 

 not endure wind and frost so well as when fairly furnished. 5. In 

 case of frost occurring when the trees are in flower, or after a good 

 crop of fruit is set, some shelter could be afforded by means of canvas 

 or nets stretched on rough poles, put in aslant amongst the trees. 

 6. In the event of the trees growing very vigorously, they should be 

 lifted every two or three years in November. 7. Plant as early as 

 possible after the fall of the leaf. 8. If planted in the most sunny 

 and sheltered spots in an orchard or ornamental shrubbery, they 

 would have the shelter of other trees, and prove as beautiful in bloom 

 and fruit as any trees that could be planted. 



Selection- of Yakieties. — The sorts that have been most fruitful 

 in my plantation and that have generally ripened their crops well are 

 the following. — Apricots : !3Ioor Park, Hemskirk, Royal Orange, 

 Breda. — Nectarines : Elruge, Pitmaston Orange, Koman, Hunt's 

 Tawny. — Peaches : Eirly Anne, Eed Magdalen, Royal George, 

 Vanguard, 



A L AUGER SELECTIO^^. — Eor those who are peculiarly circum- 

 stanced, as many of your friends in the south and west of England 

 are, and happily ignorant of the difficulties we have to contend with 

 in these eastern parts, I have prepared a larger list. This, like the 

 former, is the result of observation and comparison, and comprises 

 only such varieties as have been fairly tested here in open borders 

 during ten years past. I have added a list of plums not usually 

 grown as bushes, but which are eminently suitable for open borders 

 in good climates. — Apricots : Alberge de !Montgamet, Breda, Hems- 

 kirk, Large Early, Masculine, Orange Early, Roman, Royal, Shipley. 

 Nectarines: Downton, Due de Telliers, Elruge, jS'ewington Early, 

 Murray, Pitmaston Orange, Roman Red, River's Orange, Hunt's 

 Tawny, Yiolette Hative. — Peaclies : Late Admirable, Barrington, 

 Bellegarde, Early Anne, Early York, G-rosse Mignonne, Red ITagdalen, 

 Royal G-eorge, Yiolette Hative. — Flims : Coe's Golden Drop, Jef- 

 ferson, Purple Gage, Reine Claude de Bavay, Coe's Late Red, De 

 Montfort, Early Orleans, Mitchelson's, Belle de Septembre. 



Editorial Note on the Foregoixg. — Mr. lUman has done the 

 state some service in establishing the possibility of growing these 

 valuable fruits in the open border in the more favoured climates 

 of Great Britain. In 1863 I saw the trees. They were in perfect 

 health and loaded with fruit, which ripened perfectly. On two 

 occasions the samples he has forwarded for my inspection were in 

 quality quite second-rate, but on some half-dozen other occasions 

 tlie fruits sent were scarcely inferior to the productions of a good 

 peach wall. If by this system we can obtain good peaches and 

 nectarines six years in ten, as appears to be fully established, 

 there is a substantial benefit secured in the expansion thus far of the 

 routine of practical gardening. — S. H. 



