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bell walls (liould be allotted, and the trees 

 trained accordingly in the wall -tree order, and 

 planted againll the belt South walls, the prin- 

 cipal iupply, and fome alfo againft South- 

 weft and ealterly walls, to ripen fruit later in 

 fucceffion : feldom trained in ilandard trees, 

 as the fruit will not ripen on fuch in this 

 country, in good perfedticn, though fome 

 might be tried in half and dwarf llandards, 

 planted in warm fituations. 



But the trees are trained principally in 

 common dwarf or fhort-ftemm'd wall trees, 

 to cover the wall from the bv)ttom upward ; 

 and occafionally in half and tall ilandard wall 

 trees, to plant between the dwarfs, to cover 

 the upper parts of high walls. 



All the forts of peaches bear the fruit upon 

 the young wood of a year old, the blofibm- 

 buds riling in)mediately from the eyes of the 

 fiioots : the fa id fhoots feldom bearing after 

 the firft year, except occafionally on cafual 

 fmall natural fpurs, therefore a fucceffional 

 fupply of every year's fnoots, produced in 

 Summer, mud be retained for bearing the fruit 

 the Summer following: and as the fame Ihoots 

 both produce fruit, and fucceiiional fupplies 

 of young wood for next year's bearing, that, 

 to promote a plentiful fupply of laterals pro- 

 perly fituated, thofe retained forbearing, &c, 

 arecommonivfliortenedin the Winter pruning. 

 They alfo bear fometimes upon fmall fpurs, 

 f>n the two or three years wood. 



Peach tree^ are propagated by budding the 

 defired forts principally upon plum ftocks, as 

 beioff haidier and more durable than thofe of 



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