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to remove the lids and inner coverings (the work of 

 a minute) to show intending buyers the size and 

 colour of the fruit. Fruit for marketing is generally 

 gathered and sent off a few days before it is really 

 fit for use. 



PEACH TREES IN POTS. 



Although first-rate peaches and nectarines may be 

 obtained from trees grown in pots, few, if any, prac- 

 tical cultivators would feel disposed to devote a glass- 

 house exclusively to the culture of trees so grown, 

 seeing that more fruit could be obtained from trees 

 planted out in the border and trained to the trellis 

 fixed under the roof glass in the ordinary way, in 

 either a lean-to or span-roofed house of the same 

 dimensions, at less expense as regards initial cost of 

 trees, pots, extra labour, and attention necessarily in- 

 curred in securing good results from trees growing in 

 pots. However, where orchard-houses are provided 

 in certain districts in which climatic conditions are 

 unfavourable to the production and ripening of 

 choice pears, plums, cherries, figs, apricots, etc., out 

 of doors, peaches and nectarines in pots in bush and 

 pyramidal form may, in these circumstances, be 

 grown among the above-mentioned kinds of fruit 

 trees, giving the peach and nectarine trees favourable 

 positions as regards light. And in the absence of 

 an orchard-house or peach-house proper, a few peach 



