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valuable Kaislia, the Syrian importation, which is a most 

 valuable variety — small, but well flavored — sugary, and it is 

 also prolific. Then the Moorpark, a week later, takes you 

 into the middle of August. The Apricot peach closes the 

 list of really useful sorts, though you may add many more, 

 as Beaug^, a capital late variety of the Apricot peach ; and 

 if an early sort be required, there are the Musch or the Viard 

 to choose between. 



Peaches for the Orchard-house. — Here the variety is large, 

 but in reality only a certain number need be cultivated. 

 In countries where the peach bears tolerably out of doors, 

 then the very early and the very late sorts should be selected, 

 although, as was truly said to me the other day, " If you 

 have magnificent Royal George peaches out of doors, you may 

 have the same sort a fortnight earlier in the house, and so the 

 whole crop will not ripen at one time." 



Now, this is a real advantage, as every peach-grower knows, 

 for I have literally found them fall by scores from my trees 

 during the night, and been obliged to let them perish, they 

 were so bruised and so common. Nets, in this case, should 

 be spread 18 inches above the ground to catch them. 



But this is ridiculous cultivation, and similar to that in 

 the west of Canada, where, in the peach orchards, the pigs 

 devour the greater part of the fruit beneath the standard 

 trees. So, our object should rather be— " not so much, but 

 better." 



In the orchard-house, then, the first fruit is the Eed Nut- 

 meg, (Avant Peche rouge,) which is a singularly small peach, 

 ripe in July. Then the Early York, an American novelty, is 

 highly spoken of — Mr. Rivers considers it excellent. Then 

 the Acton Scott, an intermarriage between Noblesse and Red 

 Nutmeg. Such are the absurd names given to these fruits. 

 But Acton Scott is useful for early exhibitions ; and though 

 a pale, medium-sized peach, will probably yet hold its ground. 



The Petite Mignonne comes next, a capital varietj, and to 

 connoisseurs, the best early peach. It is rare, however, and 

 is succeeded by the Old Grosse Mignonne, which every one 



