THE 



AMERICAN 



GARDENER'S MAGAZINE. 



JULY, 1836. 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



Art. I. On the Cultivation and Management of Peach Trees 

 in Pots. By the Conductors. 



The cultivation of peach trees in pots, has, with English 

 amateurs and gardeners, been practised for many years, and con- 

 siderable quantities of fruit are thus annually obtained. Knight, 

 Nicol and others have published the resuhs of their experiments, 

 from the success of which we may infer that, though not a profit- 

 able way of furnishing the table with fine fruit, it is, neverthe- 

 less, an agreeable and interesting one. Some gardeners produce 

 all their peaches in this manner (see I. p. 266), year after year, 

 and treat the plants in the same manner as lemon and orange 

 trees. 



In this country, where the peach tree springs up from the seed, 

 and produces its fruit without any care or labor, especially in the 

 Middle and Southern states, it may be thought useless to bestow 

 so much attention on it as would naturally be required, when 

 grown in pots or boxes. It may seem to many as devoting time 

 and labor to a useless purpose ; and that horticultural zeal or en- 

 thusiasm only would ever carry one so far as to cultivate a tree 

 in a pot, to produce its few dozen of fruit, when, from one 

 growing in the open garden, bushels could be procured. This 

 might be truly said to be the case, if no other object was gained. 

 In large gardens, trees maybe planted which will produce plenty 

 of fruit, in the usual season ; but, in very small ones, there is not 

 often room enough to plant a single tree : to the former the cul- 

 tivation of trees in pots will be valuable, as, with the assistance 

 of a green-house, fruit may be picked a month or six weeks earlier; 

 and, to the latter, they are equally valuable, as fruit can be ob- 



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