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near their runs, it will be eagerly taken and soon 

 lessen the number of these troublesome insects. 



Another question has often been put to me, 

 Will potted trees last that is, continue in a 

 healthy state ? I have seen trees which have never 

 been repotted, but only top-dressed for nine 

 years, and which are as healthy as ever. My 

 belief is, that the average life of orchard-house 

 trees will be greater than those trained on open 

 walls, subject as these latter are to so many 

 injurious influences. The Orange has long been 

 cultivated in pots and tubs, and trees are in 

 existence, in perfect health, hundreds of years 

 old, as all know who have visited Versailles. As 

 an experiment, and to show what might be done 

 with a Peach tree, I had a small plant of Royal 

 George Peach potted in what is called a two- quart 

 pot : it was not allowed to root through the 

 bottom, and it was well fed by manure water; 

 thirteen Peaches were ripened, and these were 

 amongst the best fruit in the house. Early in 

 the autumn, before it shed its leaves, it was taken 

 up, all the earth shaken from its roots, and placed 

 again in the same pot, and it has now seven fine 

 Peaches on it. The plant has only three small 



