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ten inches, a few days before inoculation. Buds should then be 

 procured, of the best kinds, suitable for pot culture, and imme- 

 diately inserted, choosing a dull cloudy day for the operation, 

 and performing it very skilfully, as the stocks are so small that 

 the buds will not unite quite as freely as on those two years old. 

 Various sorts have been recommended as being the most prolific, 

 and the following may be enumerated as preferable : — 



Millett's Mignonne, Early Admirable, 



French Mignonne, Bellegarde, 



Violette hatif, Royal George. 



Those that we have tried are as follows : — 



Royal Kensington, Noblesse, 



Belle de Vetry, Bellegarde, 



Teton de Venus, Alberge Royal. 



All of which were selected from the nurseries of the vicinity. 

 The Noblesse was not the true kind, and there are some doubts 

 of one of the others. The Brunion nectarine, of which we 

 budded one plant, produces fine crops in pots, and is a delicious 

 kind. Particular pains should be taken to procure the sorts true 

 to their names, and thus save much disappointment. After the 

 buds are inserted, the plants may remain in the same situation, 

 until severe frosts occur in the fall, when the pots should be taken 

 up, to prevent their being broken, and placed in the cellar ; if 

 any roots run through the holes, they should be cut off. The 

 plants will not need water more than two or three times through 

 the winter. 



In the spring of the year the plants should be taken out of the 

 cellar, and, if convenient, put into a hot-bed or green-house, to 

 give the buds a good start ; head off the shoots three or four 

 inches above the buds ; when these have made a growth of a few 

 inches, they should each be tied to small sticks, to prevent their 

 being injured by the wind, or other accidents. Continue to sup- 

 ply the plants freely with water, and the buds will make a vigor- 

 ous growth. 



Preparations should now be made to repot the plants into the 

 pots in which it is intended to fruit them. For this purpose they 

 should be twelve or more inches wide at the top, and about the 

 same in depth. Tubs and boxes answer very well, but they are 

 not, in our opinion, so suitable as pots ; they do not last long, and 

 their appearance is not so neat. Having the pots in readiness, 

 proceed to mix the compost, which should be composed of rich 

 loam, leaf mould, sand, and old mortar or brick rubbish, in about 

 the following proportions : — one third loam, one third leaf mould, 

 one sixth sand, and one sixth hme or brick rubbish. Let these 

 be thoroughly incorporated together, if convenient, about a week 

 or fortnight before wanted for use. When all is in readiness, 



