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Royal of Noisette is evidently a subvariety of it; but his Belle 

 de Vitry (notieed p. 148.) is distinct from it. M. Noisette re- 

 marked, that in the Admirable, when ripe, the skin readily 

 separates from the pulp, while in the Belle de Vitry it ad- 

 heres : but Mr Blaikie, I find, considers this as depend- 

 ing merely on the soil in which the trees grow. The 

 Belle de Vitry is probably our Late Admirable ? Our 

 Yellow Admirable is here called Peche abricotee. The 

 Teton de Venus is regarded as one of the best of the 

 late peaches, but the tree is not considered a very free 

 bearer. The Chevreuse tardive is esteemed a good peach, 

 and M. Noisette considers the tree as the most produc- 

 tive of all. He pointed out as a novelty, a nectarine, 

 which he had picked up in Flanders several years ago, 

 and which is known by the name of Peche lisse Des- 

 prez. The fruit is small, but of good quality ; and it is 

 the earliest of all the nectarines, ripening about the middle 

 of August. 



While examining the peaches, M. Noisette shewed me seve- 

 ral examples of different modes of training peach-trees and 

 grape-vines together, so as to procure to both the benefit of 

 the same wall, and at the same time rendering them produc- 

 tive of fruit ; and he seemed to think that this mode of train- 

 ing might be found useful in economising the limited space 

 included in our vineries and peach-houses in Britain. — 

 Against one piece of low wall, a number of small peach 

 trees, placed about five feet from each other, are all train- 

 ed obliquely in one direction, at an inclination of 45°. He 

 mentioned, that peach-trees, three years grafted, and thus 

 trained obliquely, yield some fruit in the first year after 

 planting, and are in full fruit in the second year. If such 

 a tree happen to die, its place can immediately be filled up, 

 by merely allowing the branches of the neighbouring tree 

 to extend themselves. The inclined position of the whole 



