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Mulberries trained against the wall should have a 

 south, south-east, or east aspect; but it is useless to 

 attempt to train them unless there is a great extent of 

 \\all, and where they can be continued at their full 

 length : an attempt to confine them within narrow 

 bounds being fruitless, unless the most preposterous 

 way imaginable be resorted to, of training the tree in 

 twenty or thirty different directions. 



A tree of this description may be tolerated for the 

 amusement of the experimentalist ; but its exhibition 

 cannot appear otherwise than ridiculous to the man of 

 taste and judgment. 



The two finest trained mulberry trees I have ever 

 seen are now growing at Holkham, the seat of T. W. 

 Coke, Esq. ; one of these extends more than thirty yards, 

 the other twenty-eight. 



CHAP. XII. 



PEACHES. 



An Asterisk (*) denotes those which Nurserymen term French 

 Peaches, and which require to be budded upon the Pear 

 Plum Stock. 



SECT. I. Melting, pale fruited. 



1. ALMOND PEACH. Hort. Trans. Vol. iii. p. 1. 

 t. 1. 



Leaves doubly serrated, glandless. Flowers large, 

 pale rose colour. Fruit below the middle size, about 

 seven inches in circumference, globular, with a slight 

 suture extending from the base to the apex, which is 



R 2 



