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with me, the strong winds, which uniformly follow two or three 

 days of heavy rain, will be sure to uproot them. 



" During my residence of more than forty years in India," re- 

 marks Colonel Sleeman, "I have never seen so bad a place for 

 Peaches as Lucknow. I have many trees in my own garden here, 

 but not one of them produces a fruit that would be tolerated at 

 any other station in India, and those produced in the public garden 

 are not a bit better. The Grapes here are as bad as the Peaches." * 



Mr. W. M'lvor gives the following very interesting informa- 

 tion respecting the cultivation of Peach-trees on the Nilgherries. 



" It was remarked in my previous reports that the introduction 

 of the best varieties of Plums and Peaches had proved a failure, 

 inasmuch as these could not be induced to produce fruit. I have 

 now much pleasure in being able to state that these are now more 

 promising, some of the varieties having produced fruit, such as the 

 Barrington and the late admirable Peaches, the Golden Drop, and 

 the Greengage Plum. This has been effected by placing the plants 

 in partially shaded and damp situations, being quite the reverse of 

 the site usually chosen for these trees in Europe." f 



Amygdalus Persica var. Isevis. 



NECTARINE. - 



The Nectarine is generally considered to be nothing more 

 than a variety of the Peach. All therefore that has been said 

 regarding the cultivation of the one will apply alike to the 

 other. At Ferozepore I never saw the fruit growing, but it used 

 occasionally to be brought about for sale, so there must have 

 been productive trees somewhere in the neighbourhood. The 

 tree grows in the Gardens of the Agri-Horticultural Society, 

 whence also young plants are distributed ; but neither there nor 

 elsewhere in the vicinity of Calcutta have I heard of fruit ever 

 being produced. 



Prunus Armeniaca, 



APRICOT. 

 Zurd Aroo. 



The cultivation of this fruit on the plains of India has no- 

 where, I believe, been attended with satisfaction. Nor has its 



* * Journal of the Agri-Horticultural Society.' 



t ' Report of the Ootacamund Garden for 1858,' p. 18. 



