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Choice of Stocks, — We prefer for all situations 

 peach-stocks raised from stones sown either where 

 the plants they produce may remain until after they 

 are hudded and had their first training ; or, which is 

 better, sown beneath the wall against which the buds 

 they have been innoculated with have their branches 

 trained. 



The experiments of Mr. "W. Anderson, in the Bo- 

 tanical Garden at Chelsea {Gard, Mag, i. 384), and 

 others of which we have a record, shew that the peach 

 budded on an almond-stock is short-lived. 



The Damask plum and the Greengage are often 

 used as stocks for the peach, but we have found that, 

 on an average, the trees are neither so healthy nor so 

 fruitful as others budded on peach-stocks. 



In Scotland, where the severity of the climate al- 

 most precludes any hope of cultivating the peach tree 

 out of doors with regular success, Mr. M'Murtrie, 

 gardener at Shuckborough Gardens, recommends, as 

 the apricot succeeds very well in some situations, a 

 few peach-buds to be inserted into those trees. In 

 1824, he inserted a quantity of buds, which took 

 readily, and the next season made fine strong healthy 

 wood; and, in 1826 and 1827, they produced fruit 

 far superior to that on the peach trees. {Caled, 

 Hort. Mem. iv. 367.) 



We have already stated that we prefer the peach 

 stock to any other, but there are some good authori- 



