MANAGEMENT OF FRUIT TREES, &c. 1^ 



Double Blossomed, Peche de Pau, 



Double Mountagne, Ronald's early Qallande, 



Dwarf Orleans, Sion, 



Eaton, Smooth-leaved Royal George, 



Fairscot's, Steward's late Gallande, 



Ford's Seedling, Vanguard, 



Hemskirk, Violette hative, 



^Incomparable, White Blossomed. 

 Lord Falconberg's Mignonne, 



Peaches proper for a small Garden, 



The Early Avant ; Small Mignonne ; the Anne Peach ; 

 Royal George ; Royal Kensington ; Noblesse ; Early New- 

 ington ; Gallande ; Early Purple ; Chancellor ; Nivette ; the 

 Catharine ; the late Newington. 



Of the Plantings Pruning^ Training, £9''c. of Peach-Trees. 



Peaches require a lighter soil than Pears and Plums ; and 

 a light mellow loam is best. If the natural ground should be 

 a strong brick mould, or rather inclinable to clay, it will be 

 necessary to take out some of it, particularly when you first 

 make the borders, and mix with it some light mould, sand, 

 or old lime rubbish. At first making the borders, you should 

 take out the earth where the trees are to be planted, as be- 

 fore directed for Apricots ; and keep working the rest with 

 rotten leaves, or street-dung, and the above mixture ; throw- 

 ing them up, as early as you can spare them, in ridges rough 

 from the spade, which will let the frost and sun penetrate and 

 nieliorate the ground. 



If the ground should be wet, make some drains across the 

 borders, to lead the water from the roots of the trees to a 

 drain made along the middle walk. If the ground should 

 have a slope, you can very easily convey the water off when 

 the springs are near the surface , bat if the wet be occasioned 

 by rains, and the stilFiiess of the ground holds the water, you 

 should give the border a proper slope to carry it off from the 

 roots of the trees. Fill the cross drains, leading to that along 

 the middle of the walk, with old bricks or stones at bottom, 

 and at top with rough gravel, which will keep the ground 

 dry ; at tihe same time laving it sloping from the wall, so as 

 to throw the water that falls in heavy rams toward the middle 

 walk, where it will soon soak into the ground. When water 

 is suffered to stand about the roots of tender trees in strong 

 land, it is sure to bring on the mildew, which will spoil and 

 render them good for nothing but the fagot-pile. Sometimes, 



