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THE MODERN PEACH PRUNER. 



a good Peach Avail, with a properly-managed 

 orchard-house, the amateur will find everything 

 he can reasonably desire. This, at least, is within 

 the reach of many, whilst the more expensive 

 heated Peach-house can still be added by such as 

 wish an earlier produce. 



No. 6. — Transplanting. 



The time and mode of planting a young Peach 

 tree may now be considered. Very much of the 

 after-success of the tree depends on this being 

 rightly done; therefore it is a more important 

 operation than at first sight might appear. 



A tree may either be reared in our own gardens, 

 or it may be purchased at some neighbouring 

 nursery. In either case it need not be long out 

 of the ground ; and this constitutes a case differ- 

 ing somewhat from that in which trees are received 

 from a distance. 



In the first supposition, if the tree has been 

 trained against a warm wall, with all its branches 

 and shoots fully exposed to the sun, then it will be 

 in first-rate condition for transplanting. By taking- 

 care of the all-important spongioles, by replanting, 

 at a short interval of time, carefully in a suitable 

 soil, and on a mild and genial day, no check will 

 take place, and root and leaf will soon resume 



