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LIST OF FKUITS. 



beautiful fruit, and a great and a constant bearer, the Violette 

 hdtivey and the Du Tellier's. I have never knov\'n the rest to 

 ripen well. The White French, though not of so very tine a 

 flavour as the other three, is so beautiful a fruit and so great a 

 bearer that no garden should ever be without it. To preserve the 

 blossoms will come under the head of peach ; and the thinning of 

 the fruit has already been spoken of under the head of apricot ; 

 the rules there given relative to this matter being applicable to 

 all fruit trees that grow against a wall or in espalier. 



278. NUT. — The mere hazel-nut, such as is produced in the 

 coppices, and in quan tides so prodigious that, in the year 1826, it 

 was calculated that there were a greater number of four-bushel 

 sacks of nuts at Weyhill fair than of bags of hops ; though all 

 the hops grown at Farnham and a considerable part of those 

 grown in Kent, are taken to that fair ; of course this is not a 

 thing for a garden, nor even for an orchard ; but there are certain 

 nuts called Cob-nuts , of three times the bulk of the common nut, 

 and with kernels of nearly as fine flavour as that of the filbert. 

 These are propagated, planted, trained, and pruned, in precisely 

 the same manner as the filbert ; for the seed will not produce a 

 tree to resemble the fruit of the original tree, except by mere 

 accident. 



279. PEACH. — The propagation, planting, training, and 

 pruning, have already been spoken of fully ; but I have here 

 to speak of the preserving or protecting of the blossoms of wall- 

 trees. The peach, like the nectarine, will bear, and sometimes 

 ripen the fruit well, against a wall facing the west ; facing the 

 east, neither does well ; and the proper situation of both is a 

 wall facing the south. Here the situation is as warm as our cli- 

 mate will suffer it to be ; but the bloom comes out at so early a 

 season that that season is always a time of anxiety with the gar 

 dener, on account of the frosts by which the blossoms are 

 frequently so severely attacked as to prevent the coming of any 

 crop at all. To protect the blossoms, therefore, against the frost 

 is a matter of great importance. The boughs of the yew-tree and 

 other evergreens, or the spreading parts of fern, are used for 

 this purpose. Some people nail up mats in the evening and take 

 them oft' in the morning ; but to mat is very tiresome ; and, as to 

 the boughs and the fern, they must remain on day and night ; 

 and, what with the putting them on and the taking them ofl^ and 



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