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XIV. On the Advantages which Trained Peach Trees derive 

 from their Roots being allowed to penetrate the Border on 

 the North Side of the Wall. By Mr. John Robertson, 

 F. H. S. 



Read March 21st, 1820. 



observed the benefit which trained trees derive, 

 from their roots having a communication with the ground on 

 both sides of the wall, I beg leave to report an instance of it 

 to the Horticultural Society. 



Colonel Gore, of Barrowmount, in the county of Kil- 

 kenny, when building his garden walls, about sixteen years 

 ago, formed, in the foundation of those with a southern as- 

 pect, arches about three feet wide, by two feet deep, against 

 which he planted Peach trees ; he did this with the hope that 

 the trees would be benefitted by their roots thus having ac- 

 cess to the exterior soil, and the result shewed that his hopes 

 were well founded ; for from that time until this last year, 

 when Colonel Gore changed his residence, and the trees 

 were neglected, they have continued remarkably healthy 

 and vigorous, and have borne abundant crops of well-fla- 

 voured fruit ; although, within the period above mentioned, 

 there has occurred a succession of bad seasons in Ireland, 

 which, in other gardens, were attended not only with the 

 failure of the fruit, but in many instances with the loss of the 

 trees also : nor can this instance of success be attributed to 

 any local advantage of soil or situation, as the latter is a dead 

 level, and the former a strong loam. 



