THE PEACH AI\ T D KECTAKIXE UNDER GLASS. 



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this information may not be new ; to the amateur it 

 may he interesting and useful, as it will enable him 

 to choose or reject trees which have not been worked 

 in accordance with the experience of a member of one 

 of the oldest and most honourable firms in this 

 country. 



Selection. — The month of October is the best 

 time to visit a fruit-tree nursery, just as the trees 

 are finishing their growth, and before many, if 

 any, have been taken away. In selecting choose 

 trees with from eight to twelve evenly-balanced, 

 moderately strong, well-ripened shoots. Evennumbers 

 are best, as vertical leaders are then avoided in future 

 training. See that the union is neat, sound, and 

 perfect, and the stem clean, healthy, and free from 

 bruises or woimds, which may result in gumming. 

 If for open walls, give preference to short double- 

 worked half or quarter-standards, as they are hardier 

 than dwarfs, and better suited for cold damp situa- 

 tions. For planting Peach-houses, dwarfs are as well 

 adapted as quarter-standards, but for all general 

 purposes the latter are to be preferred 



Early. 



Peaches, 

 Abec. 



Alexandra Noblesse. 

 Crimson Galande. 

 Dr. Hogg. 



Early Grosse Mignonne 



Hale's Early. 



Large Early Mignonne. 



Waterloo. 



Peaches. 

 Bellegarde. 

 Dymond. 

 Grosse M'gnonne 

 Eoyal George. 

 Stirling Castle. 

 Violette Hative. 



Peaches. 

 Barrington. 

 Desse Tardive. 

 Lord Palmerston. 

 Nectarine Peach. 

 Prince of Wales. 

 Eayrnackers. 

 Sea Eagle. fable 

 Walburton, late Admir 



Nectarines. 

 Hunt's Tawny. 

 Lord Napier. 

 Murrey . 



Rivers' Early Orange. 

 Stanwick Elruge. 

 Violette Hative. 



Mid-season. Nectarines. 

 Elruge. 



Hardwick Seedling. 

 Lord Napier. 

 Pitrnaston Orange. 

 Stanwick Elruge. 

 Violette Hative. 

 Late- Nectarines. 

 Albert Victor. 

 Dante. 

 Humboldt. 

 Pine Apple. 

 Prince of Wales. 

 Victoria. 



Peaches and Nectarines foe Fl 



Abec. 



Alexandra Noblesse. 



Dymond. 



Grosse Mignonne. 



Eoyal George. 



Violette Hative. 



Peaches and Nectarines 

 Peaches 



Abec. 



Barrington. 

 Bellegarde. 

 Crimson Galande. 

 Dr. Hogg. 

 Dymond. 

 Hale's Early. 

 Lord Palmerston. 

 Eoyal George. 

 Stirling Castle. 

 Tioletfe Hative. 



AVOUR. 



Nectarines. 

 T lruge. 

 Pine-apple. 

 Pitrnaston Orange. 

 Stanwick Elruge. 

 Victoria. 

 Violette Hative. 



Good for Market. 



Nectarines. 

 Elruge. 

 Humboldt. 

 Lord Napier. 

 Murrey. 

 Pine-apple. 

 Pitrnaston Orange. 

 Stanwick Elruge. 

 Victoria. 

 Violette Hative. 

 Walburton Late Admir- 

 able. 



Planting. — The borders in the different houses 

 having been made and had time to settle, the planting 

 of young trees direct from a nursery will be a very 

 simple operation. But where the building of new or 

 the re-planting of old Peach-houses has not been 

 brought about by a hastily-conceived idea, the trees 

 for this purpose should have been grown for two or 

 three years against a reserve wall, where, by annual 

 lifting, not pruning of the roots, they would be in a 

 floriferous state, and ready to bear fruit the first 

 season. The roots would be hard, fibry, and so 

 numerous as to admit of removal at any time after 

 the foliage begins to ripen, or before the blossoms 

 open. Indeed, when well managed, it is no unusual 

 thing to take trees from a wall to a house when in full 

 flower, and gather a few dozens of good fruit the 

 same season. 



Assuming then that the houses as shown in the 

 sections range about forty feet in length, three trees 

 will be required for the front trellis, as is shown in 

 the ground-plan (Fig. 1). Those at a and b must be 

 dwarfs or half- standards, and the occupant of the 

 centre, c, a full standard or " rider " to cover the upper 

 part of the trellis, and give some fruit until the, per- 

 manent trees require the space. When the dwarf 

 trees require more room, as they very soon will if 

 trained on the extension principle, the " rider " will 

 be cut away piecemeal, or lifted and re-planted else- 

 where, as overcrowding in Peach-houses soon dis- 

 organises the management as well as the trees. Then 

 with steel forks lift the trees, carefully preserving all 

 the fibrous roots, which must not be allowed to get 

 dry during the time they are out of the ground. 

 With the same implements turn the surface soil off 

 the borders at the different stations, place the trees 

 in position, and sling the branches loosely to the 

 trellis. Spread out the roots in every direction, cut 

 the points off any that are unduly long, also any 

 damaged pieces, otherwise if left they will only throw 

 up suckers, and cover with a few inches of the com- 

 post. Work the soil well in amongst the roots with 

 the hands, and when all are covered, give the whole 

 area a few gallons of water through a rose to settle 

 the soil about them. Defer putting on the remain- 

 der of the compost until after the newly-watered soil 

 about the roots has become firm, then mulch with a 

 little short manure and keep the house cool. 



If the trees are planted direct from the nursery, 

 the arrangement of the dwarfs will be the same as 

 before ; but the latter being small, two more 

 "riders," eland, e, may be put in to furnish the upper 

 part of the trellis. In all cases avoid deep planting ; 

 four inches of soil above the roots is quite enough ; 

 also allow a space of six to nine inches between the 

 trellis and the stems. 



In the house, Fig. 2, three trees may be placed on 



