By Thomas Andrew Knight, Esq. 273 



gratify the more reasonable taste of the British Horticul- 

 turist. 



The nurserymen will, I believe, find some difficulty in pro- 

 pagating the Flat Peach by their ordinary mode of culture ; 

 for the buds, owing to their great excitability, will generally 

 be found to break and vegetate very soon after being inserted, 

 and consequently to perish in the following winter. But I 

 have succeeded perfectly, by inserting the buds in young 

 Peach stocks of the same season, in September and October, 

 and even in the early part of November. Such stocks do 

 not, however, in the cool climate of this place, usually 

 acquire sufficient maturity of wood to enable them to bear 

 very severe frost, and therefore it is my custom always to 

 remove them into pots and place them under shelter early in 

 the autumn. 



I remain, my dear Sir, 



your's sincerely, 



Thomas Andrew Knight. 



Dotemton, January 3, 1823. 



P. S. Since the foregoing observations were written, I have 

 received aletter from Mr. Wilbraham, from which I have had 

 the pleasure to learn, that the Chinese Flat Peach has exhi- 

 bited perfectly the same habits in his possession, as in mine. 



