42 THE MINIATUEE PEUIT GABDEN 



sharp current of wind from the north-east, which would 

 blow up the intervals between the walls with great 

 violence. It is surprising what a quantity of fruit may 

 be grown on a small space of ground with the aid of 

 these walls. Peaches, nectarines, and apricots may be 

 grown on .the south-east aspect, but the trees must be 

 kept in check by biennial removal. They seem to me 

 more particularly suited to suburban, or what are 

 commonly called cockney, gardens. How pleasant to 

 be able to have a brick wall twenty yards long for £6, 

 or ten yards long for £3 ; and how delightful to be able 

 to grow one's own ' wall-fruit ' ! On a wall ten yards 

 long, five peach and nectarine trees may be trained, and 

 many dozens of fruit produced annually. These dwarf 

 walls for the cultivation of peaches, nectarines, and 

 apricots must, however, differ from those for pear trees, 

 and be built so as to give a south or south-west aspect 

 for the front, a north or north-east for the back. The 

 latter may be planted with Morello cherries. To carry 

 out the cultivation of the above-mentioned trees on 

 dwarf walls, it is absolutely necessary to take them up 

 biennially in November and replant them in the same 

 place.' They will not require any compost to their 

 roots, for peach, nectariue, and apricot trees are gene- 

 rally by far too vigorous in their growth. In some of 

 the London suburban gardens the soil is so rich that 



' It is a prudent practice, in all cases of biennial removal, to 

 remove half the number of trees in alternate years, for in dry 

 seasons those recently removed may be too much checked in their 

 ^growth to bear a crop of fruit the first season after removal. 



