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orGalande; 7ih,Late Violet; 8th, Royal Kensington ; 

 9th, the Incomparable, or Pavie Admirable ; 10th, the 

 Pavie Rouge de Pomponne ; llth. the Yelloiv Admira- 

 ble, or peach having the apricot flavour : and (of the 

 nectarine tribe), 12th, the Elruge ; 13th, Fairchild's 

 White; 14th, Temple's; 15th, the Scarlet; 16th, the 

 Early Newington ; 17th, the Late Newington ; 18th, 

 the Golden ; 19th, the Red Roman ; and, 20th, the 

 Brugnon d" 'Italic. * 



All these varieties are continued by budding, and, 

 as in other cases, new ones are obtained by sowing 

 the stones; in doing which, we ought not to forget 

 that, like oil-giving seeds in general, those of the 

 peach require to be earthed as soon as they are 

 separated from the pulp. In their second year (if 

 wall trees be required), such of them as are des- 

 tined for stems are budded close to the earth ; and if 

 riders or standards be wanted, three, four, or six feet 

 higher. In the spring following, the first shoots 

 from these buds should be headed down to four, 

 five, or six eyes, for the purpose of producing two 

 upright and leading branches, and as many laterals, 

 with which you begin to give to the head the form 

 you intend it shall ultimately take. We need scarce- 

 ly remark that, on this point, the doctors in horti- 

 culture are nearly as far apart from each other as 

 are those of medicine in relation to the origin and 

 contagiousness of yellow fever. But believing, as 

 we do, that our object will be best fulfilled by turn- 

 ing aside from these discussions, we shall content 

 ourselves with a brief notice of two forms, which 

 in our opinion are at once the simplest and most 

 scientific. The first of these (the standard), as we 

 have already observed, is nearly the natural form of 

 the tree: requiring no interposition of art, if we ex- 

 cept the removal of dead, or dying, or superfluous 



* We have excluded from this list the White and the Red 

 Nutmeg, and the Early Ann, because recommended only by 

 their precocity. 



