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"beauty of this charming tree, but in the colder parts of the cotuitry 

 it suffers too much from the severity of the winter. It grows to 

 the ordinary size of the Peach tree, and has the same naturally 

 straggling habit of growth, which requires to be corrected by a 

 little heading in. The flowers are very double, looking like little 

 rosettes, of that peculiar pink shading best described as a peach- 

 blossom color. These expand before the leaves have made much 

 growth, and are borne in great profusion, literally covering the 

 tree with little roses. It thrives best in warm, dry and light soils, 

 not doing well in clay, and refusing to live if it be wet and cold. 

 It is propagated by budding on either Peach or Plum stocks. 



DwRAF Double-Flowering Almoxd. — This charming little 

 shrub, scarcely exceeding two feet in height, is of the same 

 tender character as its larger relation, not being able to endure 

 extreme frosts, and thriving best in light soils that are warm and 

 dry. Where the snow falls early, and deep enough to cover it 

 during the severe winter weather, we believe it might be safely 

 ■wintered out of doors. Yet even in our coldest latitudes the 

 beauty of this little shrub might be enjoyed by growing it in a 

 small tub, which could be plunged in the soil during the growing 

 season, and removed in autumn to a dry cellar or any other shel- 

 ter, where the thermometer did not fall to zero, taking care to pre- 

 vent the roots from becoming quite dry. Or if taken up carefully 

 in the fall, with a baU of earth about the roots, wrapped in a mat 

 and placed under shelter and covered deeply with leaves, it 

 could be replanted in spring, and would flower abundantly. The 

 blossoms are very double, of the same lovely peach-blossom color, 

 and cover the shrub in one mass of bloom. We like it best 

 when budded on the Plum stock, on account of its propensity to 

 throw up suckers from its own roots, which soon cause it to have 

 a very untidy and neglected appearance. WTien budded on 

 Plum or Peach it can be kept with a short, clean stem, which is 

 a most decided improvement. 



Dwarf Double- Wliite-Flowering Almond. — A lovely shrub, 

 in all respects like the foregoing, requiring the same soil. 



