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FRUIT-TREES (continued} THE PEACH, THE 

 QUINCE, THE MEDLAR, THE PINE-APPLE, 

 AND THE POMEGRANATE INTRODUC- 

 TION OF THE BLACK MULBERRY 

 RHUBARB LEMONS THE TOOL-HOUSE 

 ESPALIERS AND PRUNING FOREST 

 TREES ANCIENT SURVIVALS HOOKE'S 

 " MlCROGRAPHIA " AND MOSSES. 



|HE peach, which is far hardier even 

 than some sorts of pears and plums, 

 seems to have been successfully 

 grown. Mr. Wright notices an official record 

 of slips planted in the royal garden at 

 Westminster in 1276 ; and we have evidence 

 equally formal of the presence of the pear 

 of St. Regie and many others in the Earl of 

 Lincoln's garden in Holborn twenty years 



