150 On grafting the Peach oh Peach Stocks. 



wood. Cut the stock with a dovetail notch (b) for the scion 

 to rest on, and tie it on in the usual manner. Remove the 

 buds of the scion in back and front, leaving two on each side 

 and a leader ; when these have grown six or eight inches, 

 pinch off their extremities with the finger and thumb, by 

 which means each shoot will throw out two others, and thus 

 produce in autumn a fan-shaped tree with ten branches. I 

 have generally found them bear two or three fruit the second 

 year from the graft, and a proportionably greater number the 

 third year. The flavour of the fruit, I think, is superior to 

 that from trees grafted on plum stocks ; and I am happy to 

 find that this opinion corresponds with that of French gar- 

 deners, as well as of some of your correspondents. (See 

 Gar d. Mag., vol.ii. p. 167, 168, &c.) 



Such of your readers as have an opportunity, may examine 

 the trees that I have raised in the above mode, at the two 

 places mentioned. I cannot help thinking this plan of raising 

 trained trees of the peach, nectarine, and apricot deserving 

 the attention of nurserymen ; but, if they should neglect it, I 

 have no hesitation in saying that there are very few private 

 gentlemen who would not find their advantage in its adoption. 



If budding be preferred to grafting, the shoot produced by 

 the bud should be pinched after it has grown six or eight 

 inches, and only five buds allowed to push ; the five shoots 

 produced by these buds should themselves be shortened to 

 five or six inches, and disbudded as they push, so as to pro- 

 duce a fan of ten shoots, as in the case of the grafted tree. If 

 the wood so produced is properly ripened, it will hardly fail 

 to produce blossoms the following year. I confess, however, 

 I have had very little experience in budding, though I have 

 seen a budded peach bearing fruit the second year ; but it is 

 necessary to remark that the shoot was not cut down. 

 I am, Sir, &c. 



Daniel Cameron. 

 Henderson's Nursery, Pine-apple Place, 



Edgemare Road, Aug. 15. 1827. 



Mr. Cameron's paper seems to us to open a new field for 

 improvement in the culture of the peach and apricot. We 

 would suggest to nurserymen to raise stocks in plunged pots 

 of eight or nine inches in diameter ; to graft these stocks at one 

 year old, as practised by Mr. Cameron ; and to sell the trees, 

 still in pots, after being one or two years trained. By the 

 plants having been grown in pots, they would be sent out 

 with the whole of their roots ; and, when transplanted into the 



