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IV. On the House Management of Peaches and Nectarines. 

 In a Letter to the Secretary. By Mr. Patrick Flanagan, 

 F. H. S. Gardener to Sir Thomas Hare, Bart. F. H. S. 

 at Stow Hall, Norfolk. 



Read September 4, 1821. 



Sir, 



In compliance with the wish expressed by you, I send, tor 

 the Society, an account of my method of forcing Peaches 

 and Nectarines. I will first describe the plan I follow in 

 planting the trees, and then detail my system of management 

 during the first season, after which I will give the mode of 

 treatment in the second season, which last is equally appli- 

 cable to all future years. 



The soil which I generally use for Peaches and Nectarines 

 whether in houses or on open walls, is the top spit of a pasture 

 of rich yellow loam, if it can be procured, without adding to it 

 any manure whatever ; but if the soil be poor or sandy, it 

 should have a little rotten dung mixed with it. If convenient, 

 this mould should be laid up in ridges five or six months be- 

 fore it is wanted, and turned over twice or thrice during that 

 time. 



When the house is ready, the borders, both inside and out- 

 side, should be cleared to the depth of three feet, and be well 

 drained, as well as paved at bottom with slate or flat tiles, to 

 prevent the roots of the trees entering the bad soil which may 

 be at bottom. This being done, the new earth must be 



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