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VI. On the good Effects of watering the frozen Branches of 

 Peach and Nectarine-^r^, very early in the Morning. In 

 a Letter to the Secretary. By George Henry Noehden, 

 LL.B. F.L.S. 8?c. 



Read April 7, 1812. 



Dear Sir, 



Ihe gentleman, in whose garden the experiment of water- 

 ing the Peach and Nectai*ine-trees has been tried, as a pre- 

 servative of the blossoms against the spring frosts, which 

 subject I formerly mentioned to you, is James Stuart 

 Wortley, Esq. of Wortley Hall, in Yorkshire. 



On receiving your note, I immediately wrote to Mr. 

 Wortley, communicating the wishes of the Horticultural 

 Society, that he would have the kindness to furnish the 

 data necessary to elucidate the statements which I had made 

 to you, and I was favoured with an answer as soon as my 

 letter reached him. He remarks, that his garden lies uncom- 

 monly high, perhaps as high as any garden in Great Britain, 

 above the level of the sea. It consequently has not the 

 advantage of a sheltered situation ; but the local position 

 seems, on the contrary, to be rather unfavourable. To the 

 eastward it slopes a little down the side of a very high hill. 

 The quantity of fruit alleged to have been produced, Mr. 

 Wortley found, upon minute investigation, had been very 

 much exaggerated by common report. He lays great stress 

 upon the method of pruning and training the trees, practised 



