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Currants ; and by no means bad to eat in its raw 

 state. 



312. MADEIRA NUT. See Walnut. 



313. MEDLAR. A very poor thing indeed. 

 The Medlar is propagated by grafting on crab- 

 stocks, or pear-stocks. It is, at any rate, espe- 

 cially ia this ceuntry, a thing not worthy of a 

 place in a garden. At best, it is only one degree 

 better than a rotten ajijile. 



314. MELON. .See Melon in Chapter IV. 



315. MULBERRY. This tree is raised from 

 cuttings or from layers. See Paragraphs 275 and 

 277. The White Mulberry, which is the finest, 

 and which the Silk worm reeds on, grows wild, 

 and bears well, at two miles from the spot where 

 I am now writing. 



316. NECTARINE. As to propagation, 

 planting and cultivation, the Nectarine is, in all 

 respects the same as the fieach, which, there- 

 fore, see. It is certainly a finer fruit^ especi- 

 ally the Violet Nectarine ; but, it is not grown, 

 or, but very little in America. I cannot believe, 

 that there is any insurmountable obstacle in the 

 .way. It is grown in England very well. The 



White French would certainly do here ; and it is 

 the most beautiful of fruit, and a greater bearer, 



hough not so fine in flavour as the Violet. The 

 JVewington, the Roman are by no means so good, 

 I would have in the Garden three trees of each 

 of the two former. 



317. NUT. Grows wild. Not worthy of a 

 place in the Garden. Is propagated, and the 

 fruit preserved, like filbercl, which see. 



318. PEACH. The peach being the princi- 

 pal tree for the garden, I shall under this head* 



