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Improved Downton. 



Apricots must never be forced, but they can 

 be grown in a cool house, and succeed better 

 when grown in a house where pears and apples 

 are grown, than when grown with peaches and 

 nectarines. A little chalk should always be added 

 to the soil, for apricots are very partial to a cal- 

 careous soil. A little night air might always be 

 given, unless the weather be frosty. The leading 

 varieties are given below in order of merit : — 



Peach, or Grosse Peche. Oullin's Early Peach. 

 Royal. Hemskerk. 



Early iNIoor Park. St. Ambroise. 



