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and by also adding to it a portion of road-scrapings. 

 Where the natural soil of a garden, however old, is 

 of a loamy nature, tolerably deep, and resting on a 

 dry healthy subsoil, and where the fine loam I have 

 described cannot be had without great expense, I do 

 not hesitate to say that very fair success in peach- 

 culture is- attainable by merely trenching it, and 

 mixing in bones and lime-rubbish according to the 

 directions given. These remarks are intended to 

 encourage those who cannot get the turfy soil that 

 may be considered first-rate, but without which com- 

 paratively good crops of peaches can be produced. 



VARIETIES FOR EARLY FORCING. 

 PEACHES. 



Early Beatrice ) very early, but 

 Early Louisa j rather small. 

 Hale's Early taken as a whole, 



the best very early variety. 

 Dr Hogg. 



Abec. 



Grosse Mignonne. 

 Royal George. 

 Violette Hative. 



Were I restricted to three varieties of well-known 

 sorts for early forcing, I would select Eoyal George, 

 Violette Hative, and Hale's Early : Early Louisa and 

 Early Beatrice are too small to be popular ; all of 

 which are frequently ripened in April, and bear and 



set freely. 



LATE PEACHES. 



Noblesse. 



Barrington. 



Osprey. 



Prince of Wales. 



Walburton Admirable. 

 Sea Eagle. 

 Lord Palmerston. 

 Desse Tardive. 



These varieties are arranged in their order of ripen- 

 ing. Besides these there are Thames Bank, Baldwin's 



