258 On the Culture of the Mango and Cherimoyer. 



Plants of every species are, I think, more or less affected, 

 but not all injuriously, by having the sides of their pots ex- 

 posed fully to the air. The taste and flavour of the Peach 

 and Nectarine, and still more of the Strawberry, are greatly 

 improved ; and the Fig tree, in the stove, is made to afford a 

 longer succession of produce, owing to the succession of 

 young shoots, which are caused to spring from its larger 

 branches and stems ; and in all cases when trees can be made 

 to retain their health in exposed pots, the period of the ma- 

 turity of their fruit is very considerably accelerated. 



