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pinchings-in during the season. They should receive an occasional water- 

 ing with manure-water, especially the second and successive years, when 

 they are carrying a crop of fruit. On the approach of extreme cold weather, 

 say about the last of November or first of December, take these pots or 

 tubs up, and place them in some good cellar where they can remain all 

 winter ; requiring no care beyond an occasional watering, if the cellar be 

 very dry. Care must be used in setting them out in the spring; for it some- 

 times happens, that, even after all the trouble of housing them in winter, 

 they are set out only to have their blossoms or fruit all destroyed by a late 

 frost. When they are ripening their fruit, they should be exposed to the 

 sun, that the fruit may be high colored and fine flavored. We have often 

 seen two or three dozen beautiful specimens of frait on such trees. It 

 is not best to keep one set of trees more than four or five years. All the 

 varieties may be grown in this way ; though the dwarf varieties, such as 

 Van Buren's Golden Dwarf and the Italian Dwarf, are better adapted tcv 

 pot-culture. 



This system is recommended to amateurs who are fond of peaches, and 

 are willing to make special efTorts to secure good specimens. We advise 

 a fair trial of peach-trees in pots in those parts of the country where the 

 winters are too severe to permit of their being raised in the orchard with 

 success. • 



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This important work should receive early attention. The-e is a: x^ryi 

 great difference in the appearance at least between those trees that Iteiwe 

 been shortened in and those that have been left to themselves. The- tr&es 

 so treated live longer, are broken down less by the wind, produce larger- aad 

 better fruit, which is more easily gathered than from the threes grow.m by 

 the old method. 



