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duced such marvellous effects. The trees—dwarf and 

 standard trained peaches and nectarines, two or three 

 years trained, twelve of the former and six of the lat- 

 ter — were planted in Feljruiirv, 1852 ; and in the pea- 

 son of 1854, only the third year of their growtli, they 

 bore 5,000 2>eai'hcs and ncciari/ic.'.: On one tree of the 

 Noblesse Peach there Mere 500 peaches, and the same 

 number or more on a tree of the Elruge Xectarine. 

 This seemed enough to ruin the health of the trees, 

 and so I thought when I heard of it ; but when I sazo 

 the excessive vigor of the trees, I thought Mr. White 

 and his gardener not so far wrong in allowing.' them to 

 bear such an enormous crop. The dwarf trees have 

 reached to the tdp of the trellis and covered it com- 

 pletely. 



Mr. White was, I believe, offered the sum that the 

 house cost him — somewhere about .£40 — tor his crop 

 of peaches and nectarines in 1S51:. The vigor of the 

 trees is quite astonishing ; the stems of some of them 

 are twelve or more inches in circumference ; they are 

 planted inside the front shutter, and laid directly on 

 the trellis. The remarkable success of this simple 

 structure seems owing entirely to tlie perfection of its 

 ventilation ; the front shutter has been open niirht and 

 day in warm weather, and the air ]>;i.<ses gently and 

 constantly through its brushwood back wall, so as en- 

 tirely to ])rcvent stagnatioTi. Tlie trees have been 

 syringed regularly night and mornin<x, and are in the 

 finest ]i()8sihle licalth. 



As the bnisliwodd wall is uiisii^'litlv and danfforous 

 in Boiiie situations, owing to its cnjniliility of harbor- 

 ing rats and mice, wo must now see what can l>e substi- 



