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quainted with. It was planted in an open border 

 which ranges north-west and sonth-east, for the pur- 

 pose of training it as an espaher, hoping that its ini- 

 tiation to our cHmate would render its habits more 

 suited to a productire growth than those which have 

 been fostered in houses or against walls. The result 

 realised those hopes ; its growth was too vigorous to 

 bear the restraint of an espalier form, and therefore^ 

 in preference to employing that usually prejudicial, 

 and, at least, temporary remedy of over-luxuriance, 

 reducing the number of the roots, the centre branch 

 was trained as a standard, and the two side limbs as 

 an espalier. It grew most luxuriantly, and the second 

 year it bore thirty-five peaches, five of which were on 

 the standard branch, and scarcely at all later in their 

 ripening than those on the trained branches. The 

 tree "stood on a declivity sloping to the south. 



Having left the house in the garden of which this 

 tree was grown, it was neglected and died ; but we 

 beUeve that buds were taken from it, and, if so, it will 

 be found the hardiest of our varieties. The outer 

 skin of the fruit was very unusually thick. 



The Rosanna, and probably some of our other 

 early-ripening varieties, will ripen their fruit as stan- 

 dards, if grown in a favourable situation, such as on a 

 soil sloping to the south, or south-east, and sheltered 

 from the other colder points of the compass, as well 

 as from the westerly winds. 



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