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year younc; dwarfs should be planted \\liere the 

 riders stood, and tlie old dwarfs be converud 

 into riders by degrees as the vouug ones ad- 

 vance." 



For the constant certain production of this 

 fruit, fjued wails are indispensably necessary ; 

 and where a fine garden is forming, tlie extra ex- 

 pense in riueiiig two or three hundred feet of the 

 best exposed wall is but trifling, as, if built on a 

 good plan, and wrou^lit in a judicious manner, 

 the annual expense will not be any great affair. 



The methods of protecting the blossom until 

 the fruit be set has been explained already; we 

 may therefore proceed to the business of apply- 

 ing the heat. 



i3ut before this is done a trellis, or spars of 

 an inch square, should be fixed against the walls 

 to the height of the first course of the flue, in or- 

 der to keep the young shoots from being scorched 

 or injured by the fire; as when it has reached the 

 second flue, the trees may lie against the wall 

 without danger of being hurt. 



It is the custom of some, to applv fire heat to 

 fined walls in the spring season ; but this Mr. 

 Nicol disapproves of, as no species of foremg is 

 so intricate ; the trees being placed between the 

 extremes of heat and cold, it is quite inqiossible to 

 make or regulate a climate for them. In his 

 opinion, " all that is necessary for the produc- 

 tion of a crop, is, ripening and hardenmo" the 

 wood in autunni, and screening from frosty and 

 l)oisterous winds in spring." 

 . When the buds begin to appear turgid in the 

 spring, he advises screens to be hung up : and, 

 " if canvass, let down in the day, from eight in 

 the morning to five or six in the afternoon, in 

 mild weather; but if boisterous frosty winds prc- 

 .vail, to continue them all day ; and they should 

 not be totally removed till about the middle of 

 .lune; by which time the fruit will be fairly set, 

 and all danger past. About the first or middle 

 of August, according to the season and forward- 

 ness of the fruit and wood, the fires may be lighted. 

 These nuist be made very moderate at first, and in- 

 creased as the season advances. If the surface of 

 the wall about the second course of the flue be 

 kept milk warm in the night, it is, he thinks, all 

 that is necessary ;" and the quantity of fuel must 

 not be enlarged in a str)rmy night in this case in 

 the same degree as in a hot-house ; as by that 

 means all would be ruined; for the intention in 

 the application of fire, in this instance, is not the 

 forming a climate for the trees, but the ripening 

 the young shoots for the production of fruit in 

 the following season. 



The nectarine admits of being forced in the 

 same manner. 



In the dwarf and double-blossomed kinds of 

 Peach-trees the propagation is accomplished by 



budding them on stocks of the same sort as those 

 of the peach-tree. 



These are principallv cultivated for the purpose 

 of ornament, as when planted in the borders of 

 shrubberies, or other places, they are curious, 

 and produce a fine effect early in the season. The 

 dwarf sort is sometimes planted in pots, and 

 when exposed with the fruit upon it has a 

 striking appearance. 



The common peach-tree may likewise be 

 placed as a standard in sheltered situations in 

 pleasure grounds, as it has a fine appearance 

 when in full blow. 



CuUure in the Nectarine Kind. — In the propa- 

 gation, culture, and management of this tree, ' 

 the same attention will be necessary as in the 

 peach. In this ease it is, however, better to take 

 the buds from old bearing trees, and not from 

 young ones as is commonly the case. And in the 

 pruning, particular care should be taken not to 

 lay in the wood too thick or close. 



Mr. Forsyth observes, that "on account of the 

 smoothness of the skin, the nectarine suffers 

 much more from miUepeds or vv'ood-lice, car- 

 w igs, &c. than the peach : it will therefore be 

 necessary to hang up a greater number of bundles 

 of bean-stalks about these than about other fruit- 

 trees. Wasps arc also very destructive to Necta- 

 rines, and the trees are very liable to be infested 

 with the red spider." He advises, the walls with 

 the stems and branches of the trees to be care- 

 fully inspected, and all the snails about them 

 picked oB" and destroyed, as young snails fre- 

 quently commit great depredations on the leaves 

 before the fruit is fully ripe. 



After the fall of the leaf the young shoots 

 should, he says, be unnailed, in order to harden 

 the wood ; and in hot weather, basins formed on 

 the borders, and mulched as for peaches. And 

 watering with the engine is also to be practised 

 in dry hot weather in the same manner. 



The fruit should be thinned when grown to a 

 tolerable size, but the leaves never picked off till 

 the fruit be fullv grown. 



AWYlllS, a eenus comprehending different 

 balsanuferous shrubs, of the sivect-u'ood kind, 

 and w Inch are tender exotics for the stove. 



It belongs to the class and order Ocfandria 

 Monogynia, and ranks in the natural order of 

 Terebudacecp. 



The characters of which are, that the calyx is 

 a one-lcated, four-toothed, acute, erect, small 

 and permanent perianthium ; the corolla consists 

 of four oblong, concave and spreading petals ; 

 the stamina have awl-shaped, erect filaments; 

 the anthers, oblong, erect, of the length of the 

 corolla; the pistillum has a germ, superior, 

 ovate ; the style thiekish, of the length of the 

 stamens j ami the stigma is four-cornered ; the 



