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often a serious embarrassment, and thus many peaches 

 soften down and are lost, but the remedy is to increase 

 your force, to hurry off those coming to perfection, and 

 to use your evaporator freely, if you have one. Such 

 drawbacks, together with wind-storms, hail-storms and 

 such like, we must take as visitations sent by God, and 

 the nearer we can receive them in the spirit of Gold- 

 smith's Vicar of Wakefield, the nearer will we approach 

 human happiness, in respect to peach-growing, at least. 



