4S4; Treatment of the Peach and Nectarine 



"pull up," and take a peep at peach trees in perfection : such 

 I shall find at Carlton Hall gardens, under the management 

 of Mr. Seymour. Here is a perfect system, which encourages 

 health, uniformity, regularity, beauty, and utility. When the 

 border is properly made, healthy young trees planted, and 

 Seymour's system closely pursued, the trees will rarely lose 

 their equilibrium. I should adopt it with little deviation in any 

 soil or situation. Here is no confusion of branches by grow- 

 ing over each other ; there are no more than what are wanted ; 

 each shoot has its allotted space, and, as well as the fruit, is 

 agreeably exposed to the influence of the sun and air. By 

 stopping the shoot at the end of the side branch, the juices 

 are retained for the support of the fruit and the shoot intended 

 for a fruit-bearing branch the following year. But to enu- 

 merate all the merits of this plan is not my intention, although 

 I would willingly try, if by doing so I could convert Mr. 

 Newington, and those who are of his opinion, to the faith of 

 it. His plan of shortening back the young spray is useful in 

 -particular cases; but, to do it to a considerable extent, he 

 will have crotads of younger spray, and cannot avoid confusion, 

 both of which ought to be avoided on fruit trees of every 

 kind. I wish he* had been with me when I visited Carlton, in 

 -August, 1825; I am confident he would have been satisfied, 

 had he seen only one tree (I mean a peach tree), which covered 

 45 ft. of a ten-feet wall. It was then in a state never to be 

 forgotten by any gardener who beheld it. The fruit, which 

 was ripening, was of the finest description, and standing as 

 regularly all over the tree, at about 1 ft. apart, as if it had 

 been stuck on at measured distances ; there was scarcely a 

 bare piece of wall as far as the tree extended; from the trunk 

 to the extremities of the branches the succession shoots were 

 equally good from one end to the other. Is it not worth 

 while going fifty miles to see such a tree ? 



I hope Mr. Newington will not take any offence at what I 

 have said, as I have not intended any ; and if I have been 

 troublesome to you, Sir, I am sorry for it, and I will endea- 

 vour to be more careful in future. I am, Sir, &c. 

 ■ Hovosham, March 16. 1830. J. Craig. 



Art. XIX. On the Treatment of the Peach and Nectarine during 

 the Summer Season. By Mr. William Seymour, late Gardener 

 to Henry Preston, Esq., Moreby, near York. 



Sir, 

 Amongst the various communications in your useful Ma- 

 gazine, there appear to be many complaints of the bad ma- 



