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improbable, however, that seedlings mav be in tim 
in which this precociousness will disappear; for, being semi-double, it is to be expected that they 
will occasionally ripen fruit. 
Monsieur 
the Horticultural Society of Paris; and this writer adds the curious fact that the seedlings come true from 
I. His experiment is thus detailed: "In the autumn of 1845 I put in sand twelve stones of 
double Peach trees, and I planted them in March, 1846. By the end of May five only came up, and by 
the end of the year were from 16 to 18 inches high. In the spring of the following year I pinched 
the plants continued to grow at the same rate. Political events 
and 
in the beginning of 1848 prevented my transplanting them; they, therefore, went on growing in the 
seed-bed. In the course of that year they became a yard and half and two yards high, and were 
pretty well covered with branches from top to bottom. On the 5th of April, 1849, four out of these 
five plants were covered with flowers all along the branches, and at almost every bud; and the whole 
of the flowers appear to be the same as those of the common budded double Peach trees. Another 
interesting fact is, that this result had not to be waited for, for these slirubs were in full flower by 
time 
