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season at evening, about half an hour before 

 the sun leaves the house, at which time the 

 house must also be closed up. 



The thinning of the fruit must be attended 

 to as directed for trees against open walls. 

 If the trees be affected by mildew, attacked 

 with the green fly, red spider, or any other 

 disease, or insect, remedies are laid down in 

 the Chapters on each. 



The winter pruning of the trees must 

 always be performed as early as the end of 

 October. 



All the kinds of Peach and Nectarine trees 

 may be forced in tubs or pots. Young maiden 

 plants prepared as here directed are the best 

 for this purpose, Let the soil in which they 

 are planted be a strong loam, moderately 

 enriched with well rotted cow's dung, or 

 vegetable manure. The tree must be headed 

 down at spring, as is practised with wall 

 trees; and for the first three or four years, 

 should be introduced at spring, into a green- 

 house, Vinery, or Peach house, for two or 

 three months, in order to bring the tree to a 

 bearing condition in due time. If there be 

 a border in which the pots can be plunged 

 up to the rim, without damaging the roots 

 of any other tree, let this always be done, as 

 it keeps the soil in a more regular state of 

 moisture. In pruning the tree so as to fur- 

 nish it with wood, and when arrived at a 



