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be set in a hedge. The small yellow or yellow and 

 pink coloured is the best for eating ; a large purple, 

 called the Whitcorn but the name is perhaps local 

 -is best for preserving. A row of such trees about 

 the outside of the garden, with some in the shrubbery, 

 and one or two in the best soil, will prove a valuable 

 treasure. The fruit is not greatly prized, but is 

 always eaten ; and it rejoices the table for a whole 

 year by excellent preserves. No one can look with- 

 out pleasure on those trees covered all over with pur- 

 ple and golden fruit in clusters and swarms. In 

 blossom, towards the end of April, they are the most 

 beautiful objects in nature shooting into the sky the 

 most picturesque forms of aerial lightness, and white 

 as the clothing of angels. Yet is so bright a beauty 

 associated with a happier sight the season of ripe 

 plums and preserves, and the smiles of children look- 

 ing for a jelly piece. 



As a useful and interesting addition to the ordi- 

 nary methods of standard cultivation, let one or both 

 sides of some convenient walk be thickly planted with 

 paradise stocks ; the rows to be each four feet from 

 the walk, and the trees in the row not more than 

 three feet apart. Supposing the walk to be thirty 

 yards in length, you will thus have sixty young trees, 

 which will cost, I believe, less than two shillings. 

 When they have stood one or two years they may 

 be grafted ; and in case that any should fail, as blanks 

 where a row is designed are never easily endured, it 

 will be proper to have a few spare plants, subjected, 

 at the same time, to the like operation, in order to 

 fill up any casual deficiency; or it may be better to 

 have the whole planted at first in some other part of 



