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great bearer, and, like the apricot of Breda, is well 

 adapted to the standard form. 



9. The Moor Park or Peach, rarely, if ever, met 

 with in this country ; a fact the more extraordinary, 

 as many circumstances conspire to give it a decided 

 preference over all the other varieties. The tree 

 is large, vigorous, and hardy, and is propagated like 

 the kind first named, from the stone, without risk 

 or trouble of grafting or budding; it does well either 

 as a standard or espalier, and gives fruit in great 

 abundance and of an excellent quality.* 



The apricot is multiplied in various ways, but 

 principally by seeds and budding. If we employ 

 the former of these methods, not a moment should 

 be lost after the fall of the fruit in placing the 

 stones in the earth ; nor should we omit for a single 

 day to water them after they are planted. With- 

 out an observance of these rules, the pits or seeds 

 shrivel or become rancid ; and in either case, the 

 power of germination (which in the apricot is nat- 

 urally feeble) is always impaired and often destroy- 

 ed. Sow also in the lines and at the distances at 

 which the trees are permanently to stand, whether 

 as wall fruit or standards ; for, by so doing, the 

 plants will have more and stouter roots, be better 

 assured against high winds (which always fatigue 

 and often destroy them), give their fruit sooner, and 

 escape the many hazards of transplantation.! 



We have just suggested that the stone of the 

 apricot is slow in giving signs of life ; and we may 

 add that, when it does give them, it requires several 

 years to render the planj; strong, healthy, and pro- 

 ductive. This last is probably the circumstance 

 that has decided nursery-men in favour of the other 

 (or budding) method of propagation, as by this they 



* Catalogue-makers unite in giving this variety the prefer- 

 ence. See Loudon, &c., &c. 



t Manage this as we may, still there is a hazard in it. and 

 particularly so with regard to the apricot. 



