18 On watering the frozen Branches of Peach- trees, fyc. 



Note by the Secretary, 



The quantity of Peaches and Nectarines produced appears 

 to me only what ought to be expected on every well managed 

 wall of the same extent, from the same number of trees nine 

 years old ; being not quite 200 to each tree, on an average ; 

 and, as it appears by the answer to the last query, that the 

 walls are flued, the excellent flavour of the fruit was probably 

 owing to artificial heat. In a situation not much below Wort- 

 ley Hall, in point of elevation, I never failed to have abundant 

 crops of Peaches and Nectarines, on a common south wall, 

 without any care whatever ; but the earliest varieties, even the 

 Red Nutmeg Peach, never ripened till the middle of Septem- 

 ber, and some of the others not at all. 



