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grown for home use. There is no fruit so universally 

 liked and so wholesome for family use, and they can be 

 kept fresh a long time, if cut with a part of the wood, to 

 be inserted in bottles of water, with a little charcoal at 

 the bottom. 



Those who intend to grow only one sort for market 

 will plant, of course, Black Hambro', or, if wanted late, 

 " Lady Downes " or Grros Maroc. But for flavour, the 

 Muscats, Frontignans, and the choicest of the Chasselas 

 sorts will be selected. 



WALL FRUIT. 



PEACHES, nectarines, and apricots are usually produced 

 only under glass, by market growers, because they 

 thereby combine more readily, excellence of quality, 

 certainty of crop, and control over disease, etc. 



Apricots have been grown often by cottagers even out 

 of doors successfully, and regular supplies were formerly 

 sent up to the London market from the small growers 

 of Oxfordshire ; but the heavy imports from abroad now 

 give but little chance to the home producer for market, 

 except the production of really choice dessert fruit can 

 be ensured under glass. For this purpose the growers 

 have mainly turned their attention hitherto to peaches 

 and nectarines ; but orchard houses of carefully-selected 

 apricots, planted out in suitable well-drained, light soil, 

 where this fruit is known to succeed, would well repay 

 the enterprising cultivator. 



Peaches and nectarines, under glass, scarcely ever fail 

 to pay well for those who can command the requisite 

 time and labour to obtain a well-grown crop. 



