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INTRODUCTORY. 



DURING the twenty-five years for which I presided 

 over the Longford Castle gardens, Salisbury, I was 

 a pretty regular and successful exhibitor of col- 

 lections and single dishes of choice hothouse and 

 wall fruits at the annual summer and autumn show's 

 held at the Crystal Palace and leading provincial 

 towns, and the peaches and nectarines in the Long- 

 ford collections always excited favourable comments 

 on the part of experts. 



I also grew r peaches and nectarines very exten- 

 sively on a goodly portion of the 1700 yards of 

 brick walls, from nine to twelve feet high, which 

 were available for the growth of choice stone fruit 

 and pears, the gardens being enclosed and inter- 

 sected with walls to such an extent as to divide the 

 kitchen garden into several sections, thereby afford- 

 ing a variety of aspects for growing certain kinds 

 of fruit trees. About 250 yards of these walls 

 were covered with trees of select varieties of the 

 peach and nectarine, these being furnished from 

 bottom to top with plenty of young, healthy, fruitful 



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