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V. Particulars of a Peach Tree in the Garden at Cockfield 

 Hall, the Seat of Sir Charles Blois, Bart, in the Parish 

 ofYoxfield, Suffolk, By the Right Hon. Zord Rous, F.H.S. 

 Communicated by Roger Wilbraham, Esq. F.R.S. §c. 

 Vice President. 



Read January 6, 1818. 



This Peach tree is of the Noblesse kind; it was purchased 

 of Mr. Cunningham, nurseryman at Paddington, in the year 

 1794, and was then planted by the late Sir John Blois, 

 on the outside of a forcing-house, into which it was brought, 

 through an aperture in the front wall. The house has no 

 flue, and at first did not exceed 20 feet in length by 16 feet 

 in width, and 9 in height, but it has since been lengthened 

 to 38 feet. The circumference of the stem of the tree, at a 

 foot from the ground, is 2 feet 10 inches ; it is trained under 

 the rafters, in the shape of a fan, and completely fills the 

 house, and there is no doubt, were the space greater, might 

 be extended much farther. The glass is generally put on 

 about the middle of March, but this depends on the state of 

 the fruit buds. The soil is rich and loamy ; the substratum, 

 at little more than two feet from the surface, is bog-earth : 

 no particular dressing is applied beyond the forking in about 

 the roots a few barrowfulls of rotten horse-dung in the early 

 part of the winter. The mode of pruning differs in no re- 

 spect from the usual one, and it is generally performed in the 

 month of January. By attention to fumigation with tobacco, 

 and occasionally using a wash, composed of tobacco liquor, 



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