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two Plats 14 feet wide is left clear for the grape 

 vines. — These 30 Peach-trees, properly managed, 

 would yield more fruit, even m bulk, than a large 

 orchard in the common way; and ten times as much 

 in point of value ; the size as well as the flavour of 

 the fruit are greatly improved by this mode of cul- 

 ture. — However, the sort is of very great conse- 

 quence. It is curious enough, that people in gene- 

 ral think little of the sort in the case of peaches^ 

 though they are so choice in the case of apples. A 

 peach is a peach, it seems, though I knovv' of no ap- 

 ples between which there is more difference than 

 there is between different sorts of peaches, some of 

 which melt in the mouth, while others are little 

 better than a white turnip. — The sort is, then, a 

 matter of the first importance ; and, though the 

 sorts are very numerous, the thirty trees that I 

 would have should be as follows : — 1 Violette Ha- 

 live, 6 Early Montauhon, 1 Vanguard, 6 Royul 

 George, 6 Grosse Mignonne, 4 Early Noblesse, 

 3 Gallande, 2 Bellgarde, 2 Late Noblesse, These 

 are all to be had of Mr. Prince, of Flushing, in this 

 island, and, as to his icord, every body knows that 

 it may be safely relied on. What is the trifling ex- 

 pense of 30 trees ! And, when you once have them, 

 you propagate from them for your life. Even for 

 the fee-ding of hogs, a gallon of peaches of either 

 of the above sorts is worth twenty gallons of the 

 poor, pale, tasteless things that we see brought to 

 market. — As to dried peaches, every body knows 

 that they are managed as dried apples are ; only 

 that they must be gathered for this purpose before 

 they be soft. 



319. PEAR. — Pears are grafted on pear-stocky 

 on quince-stocks, or on those of the white-thorr 

 The last is best, because most durable, and, fc*^* 



