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fourtli or fifth leaf. Destroy the buds in the axillae 

 of these leaves as they appear. The laterals, near 

 the top of the plant, when about seven feet high, 

 must be shortened; but the buds are not to be 

 touched. Change the pots three times during the 

 summer, adding fresh turf each time. The plant will 

 probably form blossom buds the same autumn, and 

 these may be at once used for propagating the variety. 

 — {KnighVs Papers.) 



Hybridizing may be practised very successfully 

 with the peach, by removing the stamens from the 

 flowers of the female parent, and applying to their 

 stigmas, by the aid of a camel' s-hair pencil, pollen 

 from the stamens of that which is wished to be the 

 male parent. The Acton Scot and Spring Grove were 

 thus obtained, the latter having for its male parent 

 the Large French Mignon, and for its female parent 

 the Small Red Nutmeg. The female parents were 

 dwarfs grown in large pots ; they were in vigorous 

 health when impregnated, and only three peaches 

 allowed to ripen on each tree. Each stone produced 

 a difl'erent variety, of which the two above named 

 were the best. In the above cross-breeding the prin- 

 ciple was kept in sight, that the most excellent off- 

 spring is engendered between parents remotely related 

 to each other. 



Layers, — Mr. Knight states that peach and necta- 

 rine trees, particularly of those varieties which have 



