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gay appearance. It is not improbable, however, that seedlings may be in time produced from them 

 in which this precociousness will disappear ; for, being semi-double, it is to be expected that they 

 will occasionally ripen fruit. 



That semi- double Peaches will fruit has been pointed out by Monsieur Jacques, in the Journal of 

 the Horticultural Society of Paris; and this writer adds the curious fact that the seedlings come true from 

 seed. His experiment is thus detailed: "In the autumn of 1845 I put in sand twelve stones of 

 double Peach trees, and I planted them in March, 1846. By the end of May five only came up, and by 

 the end of the year were from 16 to 18 inches high. In the spring of the following year I pinched 

 off some of the lower branches, and the plants continued to grow at the same rate. Political events 

 in the beginning of 1848 prevented my transplanting them; they, therefore, went on growing in the 

 seed-bed, In the course of that year they became a yard and half and two yards high, and were 

 pretty well covered with branches from top to bottom. On the 5th of April, 1849, four out of these 

 five plants were covered with flowers all along the branches, and at almost every bud; and the whole 

 of the flowers appear to be the same as those of the common budded double Peach trees. Another 

 interesting fact is, that tins result had not to be waited for, for these slirubs were in full flower by 

 the time they were three years old." 



