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also a good grower, and seven or eight days earlier than any other 
known variety. It crops even on trees only a year old, and if 
well thinned the size is magnificent. I think it will succeed on 
the open wall as well as under glass. F.CC. 
Neioton and Spenser are " food for the gods " among late 
varieties, and their enormous size, grand colour, and exquisite 
flavour at once place them in the very foremost rank. Their 
wood is stout and very short-jointed, indicating heavy crops and 
good constitution. 
Drydeiu—OnQ of the finest new mid-season varieties. 
Peaches. 
Messrs. Rivers again take the lead, and their introductions 
have done much to lengthen the season of Peaches for culture 
under glass. 
The Americans have undoubtedly sent us some fine early 
Peaches, but they are valued, I think, one and all, more for their 
precocity than for their flavour. Amongst the more recent. 
General Lee, Early Canada, and Harper's Early are not so 
good as Hale's Early, F.CC, which was introduced some twenty 
years ago. 
Alexander, F.CC, Waterloo, and Amsden June, F.CC, are 
very early, but unless under exceptionally good conditions they 
do not possess rich flavour, though thoy are juicy and pleasant. 
Their great merit is that thoy are three weeks earher than any 
others. 
A word as to failure with these early American varieties 
under glass. If a low temperature is kept until they have set 
their fruit, no difficulty will be experienced in setting the blooms. 
As soon as the setting is over the day and night temperature can 
be raised, when they soon begin to swell and astonish one by 
the quickness with which they come to maturity ; but a con- 
tinuance of forcing heat during the flowering time will almost 
certainly cause them to cast the young fruit. This difficulty 
does not occur in the open air, and they are valuable additions 
to early wall fruit. With trees of these varieties grown in an 
orcliard-housc in pots, the flavour may be very greatly improved 
if thoy arc stood outside in the open air for the last fortnight of 
their ripening ; they then put on a fine colour, and become good 
in flavour, though they can under no circumstances be classed as 
