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ties who use other stocks, and vary these according 

 to the soil on which the trees are grown. Thus the 

 Montreuil orchardists, near Paris, so famous for their 

 peaches, employ almond-stocks on soils sandy or 

 chalky, and plum-stocks where the soil is clayey. 

 Mr. Knight, we think, inclined to the use of almond- 

 stocks for the nectarine ; and adds, as a warning, that 

 as they do not transplant well, they should be grown 

 in pots. 



Mr. J. Smith, gardener at Hopetown Gardens, 

 N. B., has made the following observations upon this 

 subject : — 



The adaptation of stocks to soils has not been suf- 

 ficiently studied in this country. In France, the peach 

 is budded on almonds in dry situations ; while such as 

 are destined for heavy loams are inserted on plums. 

 It may also be noticed, that the French seldom ven- 

 ture peach trees on such clayey soils as we not unfre- 

 quently do. 



Instead of budding the tree on the spot on which 

 it is to grow, or transplanting it when, in technical 

 phraseology, it is a maiden, that is one year old, we, 

 in our impatience, have recourse to trees which have 

 been trained in the nurseries. Such plants, by a 

 rigorous application of the knife, are made to produce 

 an abundance of showy wood, and, at the same time, 

 are so circumscribed that they do not cover half as 

 much wall as the French trees of the same age. The 



