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Gerard also, says,- "the leaves of the peach- 

 tree boiled in milk, will destroy the worms in 

 young children/' 



The young leaves are used by cooks to 

 flavour blant>mange, custards, puddings, &c.; 

 and a liquor resembling noyau is made by 

 steeping peach-leaves in white brandy, and, 

 when sweetened with sugar-candy, and fined 

 with milk, it is difficult to distinguish it from 

 the flavoured cordial of Martinique. 



Michaelmas is the time recommended for 

 the winter pruning of the nectarine, as well 

 as the peach-tree, when, with little attention, 

 the blossom-buds will be known from the 

 wood-buds ; the latter being less turgid, lon- 

 ger, and narrower, than the blossom-buds. 

 In shortening the branches, observe to leave 

 a wood-bud at the end instead of the fruit- 

 bud. Care should be taken to nip off the 

 ends of the strong shoots in the month of 

 May, which will cause them to throw out new 

 boughs in every part of the tree, as it pro- 

 duces its fruit from the young wood, either 

 of the same, or at the most of the former 

 year's shoot. 



Peach-trees are often injured by a desire 

 to retain too full a crop on the branches, 

 which not only prevents the present fruit from 

 coining to maturity, but, by exhausting the 



