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recommended is a light one, for it certainly is not ; 

 but it is a perfectly safe crop, and if a careful study 

 be made of the rate of increase per tree each year, 

 the proof will be a con\incing one, viz. that the 

 trees will go on for many years, and there will be 

 an increase in the crop annually. 



The longevity of fruit trees in pots. — 

 The title of this section may appear somewhat 

 paradoxical, but it is intended to show that fruit 

 trees under cultivation will attain to a great age. 

 I have frequently been questioned as to the length 

 of time a tree would IIa'c in a pot. Mj reply has 

 been that it would live to a great age, but the 

 limit would be decided by the kind of tree grown, 

 owing'to some trees being more vigorous in their 

 growth than others. 



It has been my privilege to be brought in con- 

 tact with fruit trees in pots as much as any person 

 in the United Kingdom or elsewhere. Having 

 had trees entrusted to my care from a seedling in 

 its earliest stages of infancy, to a peach tree which 

 reached its jubilee, I am able to speak with 

 authority. 



Those who decide to grow fruit trees in pots 

 may rest assured that it is not the short-lived 

 thing of two or three years as some represent it 

 to be. It is quite the contrary. 



Peaches and nectarines will grow well and give 



