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Here again, as the trees will be subjected to a some- 

 what greater amount of heat in the aggregate, we 

 would make the border a little deeper than for ordi- 

 nary walls. The whole of the process here, in fact, 

 may be exactly intermediate between the course re- 

 commended for the house border and that of the open 

 wall. 



Before closing with the subject of border-making, 

 it will be well to observe, that the more turf the loam 

 contains the better ; and that from very old rest-land 

 is by all means to be preferred. It may be dug or 

 cut from two to six inches deep, according to the de- 

 signs of the proprietor, and one rough chopping will 

 suffice ; it must by no means be broken fine. Lumps 

 of solid turf, in masses, four or five inches in thick- 

 ness, should prevail through the whole mass. 



If a soil is a friable loam, but deficient in decom- 

 posing organic matter, the best compost which can be 

 employed is a mixture of bone-dust and decayed 

 leaves, in the proportions of two parts of the latter to 

 one of the former. 



AS A STANDARD. 



The Hardy Morton Peach was raised from a stone 

 of a fruit which was gathered in the garden of J. 

 Morton, Esq., Rehoboth, near Dublin. Throughout 

 its growth in was exposed to all the vicissitudes of 

 our climate, and was the hardiest variety we were ac- 



