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ber need be cultivated. In countries where the 

 peach bears tolerably out o doors, then the very 

 early and the very late sorts should be selected, 

 although, as was truly said to me the other day, 

 " If you have magnificent Royal George peaches 

 out of doors, you may have the same sort a fort- 

 night earlier in the House, and so the whole crop 

 will not ripen at one time." 



Now, this is a real advantage, as every peach- 

 grower knows, for I have literally found them fall 

 by scores from my trees during the night, and 

 been obliged to let them perish, they were so 

 bruised and so common. Nets, in this case, 

 should be spread 18 inches above the ground to 

 catch them. 



But this is ridiculous cultivation, and similar to 

 that in the west of Canada, where, in the peach 

 orchards, the pigs devour the greater part of 

 the fruit beneath the standard trees. So, our 

 object should rather be " not so much, but 

 better." 



In the Orchard-house, then, the first fruit is 

 the Red Nutmeg (Avant Peche rouge), which is 

 a singularly small peach, ripe in July. Then the 

 Early York, an American novelty, is highly 

 spoken of Mr. Rivers considers it excellent. 

 Then the Acton Scott, an intermarriage between 

 Noblesse and Red Nutmeg. Such are the absurd 

 names given to these fruits. But Acton Scott is 

 useful for early exhibitions ; and though a pale, 



