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HOCKINGS' GARDEN MANUAL. 



Hocking Drallab : Size, very large ; flavor, rich, 

 sugary, and juicy; freestone; flesh, white and tender; 

 fruit often ten inches round ; ripens first week in 

 February. 



Hockings Rhemj : Size, large; juicy, fine flavor; 

 color, good and handsomely mottled ; skin, downy ; 

 clingstone; ripens second week in February. 



In addition to the foregoing peaches, which ripen in 

 succession in the Brisbane district in the order in 

 which they stand, and provide an uninterrupted supply 

 of this luscious and useful fruit, from the end of the 

 crop of flat China peaches at Christmas, until the end 

 of February, there are many other useful sorts well 

 worthy of cultivation, which will be found in the 

 writer's catalogue. They embrace slipstones and cling- 

 stones, early and very late (two good sorts ripening in 

 April), white and yellow flesh, of greatly improved 

 flavor, some of them approaching the exquisite quality 

 of the best English wall-grown fruit. 



Propagation : The peach is propagated by budding 

 and grafting, to continue or extend improved sorts. 



Planting : The trees may be planted from sixteen to 

 twenty feet apart. Sixteen feet will be sufficient if 

 the pruning is regularly attended to. From April to 

 August is the season for removal, and early planting is 

 recommended where the plants have not far to go from 

 the nursery. On planting the trees, only take out 

 sufficient earth to allow depth for their roots, and be 

 careful that they are not put any deeper than they had 

 previously stood in the nursery. Let the roots be 

 spread out as fiat as possible, radiating from the stem 

 in all directions ; fill in between the roots with some 

 of the finest and best mould procurable, pushing it 

 into the interstices of the roots with a stick ; cover 

 the roots with a thin layer of the same mould ; fill in 

 a little of the surrounding soil, tread it down gently 

 but firmly, and draw the remainder around the stem 

 in the form of a mound, with a flat top. Give a little 



