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duced such marvellous effects. The trees — dwarf and 

 standard trained peaches and nectarines, two or three 

 years trained, twelve of the former and six of the lat- 

 ter — were planted in February, 1852 j and in the sea- 

 son of 1854, only the third year of their growth, they 

 bore 5,000 peaches and nectarines. On one tree of the 

 Noblesse Peach there were 500 peaches, and the same 

 number or more on a tree of the Elruge Nectarine. 

 This seemed enough to ruin the health of the trees, 

 and so I thought when I heard of it ; but when I saxo 

 the excessive vigor of the trees, I thought Mr. "White 

 and his gardener not so far wrong in allowing them to 

 bear such an enormous crop. The dwarf trees have 

 reached to the top of the trellis and covered it com- 

 pletely. 



Mr. "White was, I believe, offered the sum that the 

 house cost him — somewhere about £40 — for his crop 

 of peaches and nectarines in 1854. The vigor of the 

 trees is quite astonishing ; the stems of some of them 

 are twelve or more inches in circumference ; they are 

 planted inside the front shutter, and laid directly on 

 the trellis. The remarkable success of this simple 

 structure seems owing entirely to the perfection of its 

 ventilation ; the front shutter has been open night and 

 day in warm weather, and the air passes gently and 

 constantly through its brushwood back wall, so as en- 

 tirely to prevent stagnation. The trees have been 

 syringed regularly night and morning, and are in the 

 finest possible health. 



As the brushwood wall is unsightly and dangerous 

 in some situations, owing to its capability of harbor- 

 ing rats and mice, we must now see what can be substi- 



