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and by also adding to it a portion of road-scrapings. 

 Where the natural soil of a garden, however old, is 

 of a loamy nature, tolerably deep, and resting on a 

 dry healthy subsoil, and where the fine loam I have 

 described cannot be had without great expense, I do 

 not hesitate to say that very fair success in peach- 

 culture is attainable by merely trenching it, and 

 mixing in bones and lime-rubbish according to the 

 directions given. These remarks are intended to 

 encourage those who cannot get the turfy soil that 

 may be considered first-rate, but without which com- 

 paratively good crops of peaches can be produced. 



VAKIETIES FOE EARLY FOECING. 



Peaches. 



Early Beatrice ) very early, but Abec. 



Early Louisa ) rather small. Grosse Mignonne. 



Hale's Early — taken as a whole, Eoyal George. 



the best very early variety. Violette Hative. 

 Dr Hogg. I 



Were I restricted to three varieties of well-known 

 sorts for early forcing, I would select Eoyal George, 

 Violette Hative, and Hale's Early : Early Louisa and 

 Early Beatrice are too small to be popular ; — all of 

 which are frequently ripened in April, and bear and 

 set freely. 



Late Peaches. 



These varieties are arranged in their order of ripen- 

 ing. Besides these there are Thames Bank, Baldwin's 



