NECTARINES. 299 



In the Highlands of Scotland the south and south- 

 cast aspects alone can be appropriated to Nectarines 

 with any chance of success. 



Propagation of Peaches and Nectarines. 



Peaches and Nectarines are propagated by budding 

 them upon the Muscle and the Pear-plum stock ; the 

 latter being made use of for those kinds which are 

 among nurserymen termed French Peaches, and 

 which, generally speaking, are by far the best in our 

 collections. Those budded upon the Pear-plum have 

 likewise an advantage over many of the others which are 

 budded upon the Muscle, in being much less affected by 

 mildew, particularly those kinds which have glandular 

 leaves. 



The Brompton Stock has also been introduced, and 

 many thousands of peaches and nectarines have been 

 budded upon it, to the serious injury of every one who 

 has purchased them. What has been said upon this 

 subject, when treating of apricots, will, I trust, be suf- 

 ficient to warn all persons from purchasing trees, what- 

 ever their appearance may be, unless they have been 

 propagated upon either the Muscle or the Pear-plum. 

 These are the stocks on which we can place a firm 

 reliance for the production of sound trees : the other 

 ought to be banished from every nursery in the king- 

 dom. 



In budding peaches and nectarines for dwarfs, good 

 clean stocks should be chosen, and if Muscles, they 

 should be worked the first summer after they have been 

 quartered out : as the maiden plants thus raised seldom 

 exceed two inches in circumference, and if not so much 

 the plants will be the better. 



The Pear-plum need not be budded till the second 

 summer after quartering, as it seldom acquires a suffi- 

 cient thickness the first year. 



