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JOTTRVAL OF THE R3YAL HORTICTTTTT. \T. SOCIETY. 



PZACHZ5, 



July. 



Alexander 

 Waterloo 

 Early Beatrice 

 Early Louise 

 Hale's Early 



August. 



Large Early Mignorxe 

 Eivers' Early York 

 Condor 



Early Grosse Mignonne 

 Dr. Ho?? 



September. 

 Grosse Mignonne 

 Galande 

 Goshawk 



Alexandra Noblesse 

 Noblesse 

 Eoyal George 

 English Galande 

 Stirling Castle 

 Barrington 

 Princess of Wales 

 Walburton Admirable 

 Gladstone 

 Sea Eagle 



Stan wick Elruge 

 Newton 

 Milton Goldoni 

 Eivers' Orange 

 Humboldt 

 Pine Apple 

 Victoria 



NZCTAELSZ: 



July. 



Advance 



August. 

 Lord Napier 

 Improved Downton 

 White (Rive: ? 

 Spenser 



I have given a long list of fruits, and many will think that it 

 is not necessary to employ so many varieties. The orchard house 

 amateur will discover, after a few years' experience, that fruit 

 trees have their individualities and dispositions. The fruit will 

 not always ripen in the order assigned to it ; variation of season 

 and variation of culture will affect the trees, and although I 

 have placed the sorts as nearly as possible in the order in which 

 they ripen, yet when a tree becomes acclimatised to the orchard 

 house it will sometimes change its nature very completely. It is 

 one of the pleasures of the skilful manager of a house to watch 

 these variations, and to adapt his culture to the express wants 

 of his trees, which he will not be long in discovering. 



There is also considerable difference in the habit of growth 

 of the different sorts of peaches and nectarines. Some kinds, as 

 the Alexander and Hale's Early will produce long shoots with 

 fruit buds at long distances from each other. It is as well to 



