212 Mode of Managing Peach Trees, fyc. 



ounces English weight, but I have gathered several that 

 weighed ten ounces. The trees in the house I have been 

 describing, although they have been forced twenty-seven 

 years, are in great good health. The sorts are the New 

 Gallande Peaeh, and the Woodhall Nectarine, a seedling 

 raised at this place ; the Nectarines come the ordinary size of 

 that fruit, a little more than half the size of the Peaches. 

 The crop is generally fit for gathering from the middle to the 

 end of May, and it is in general all gathered by the 12th of 

 July ; as soon as it is cleared, I give the trees a good wash- 

 ing of water with the engine, to stop the red spider coming 

 on them, and after dash water over the leaves once a week, 

 till the wood is sufficiently ripened, and the flower buds well 

 formed ; I then take off the sashes and expose the trees to 

 the open air. They are much the better for being exposed 

 to the weather and the rains which fall in the months of 

 September, October, and November; about the 1st. of De- 

 cember, I again shut up the house, and when the flower buds 

 are a little advanced as above stated, I proceed as before 

 described. 



I treat all the Peach and Nectarine trees that are under 

 glass, in the same way as above ; but of those that are on the 

 open walls, the young wood must be nailed in, otherwise it 

 would not ripen. Although I lay in the young shoots, at the 

 time of pruning for the crop, at from six to nine inches from 

 each other, yet I have always a very regular crop and rather 

 thick than otherwise. 



