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pen abundantly upon common ftandard trees ; though 
the trees are more generally cultivated for their orna¬ 
mental flowering than as fruit trees ; and the Jordan 
Almond, and the other varieties, feldom produce fruit in 
this country in good perfection, fo are admitted prin¬ 
cipally for variety in pleafurable plantations; but in 
the Peach and NeCtarine, all the forts are valuable in 
their fruit, which, on wall-trees, againft fouthern 
walls, ripen in full maturity; andfomeof the varieties 
of the trees in ftandards, are alfo introduced in Ihrub- 
beries, &c. for ornament. 
The fruit, in the different varieties of Peaches and 
Nectarines, attaining perfection of full growth, from 
July or beginning of Auguft, to the latter end of 
OCtober, they ripen in regular fucceflion for three 
months, for immediate eating; or, at leafl, will not 
keep any confiderable time after being gathered, like 
apples and pears, but are continued, occaiionally, in 
a preferved preparation; and in their young, green 
ltate, the NeCtarines, in particular, when produced 
thick on the trees, are thinned off for making tarts, 
&c. generally in May or early in June, before the nut 
or ftone hardens; but the Peaches, on account of their 
downy rind, are not fo well adapted for that occafion. 
In the ripe ftate of thefe fruit. Peaches and Nec¬ 
tarines, fome are remarkable for quitting or parting 
freely from the ftone, and others for adhering clofe 
thereto; but in the NeCtarines particularly, the greater 
part adhere clofe, and fome having a melting pulp, 
Separate from the ftone freely in eating; and in which 
particularities, thofe which quit the ftone, have gene¬ 
rally a more foft and melting, flelhy pulp than thofe as 
clofely adhere. 
The Amygdalus communis , or Common Almond, 
may be cultivated both as a fruit-tree, in its two va¬ 
rieties of the bitter and fweet-kernelled kinds, and for 
the beauty of its ornamental bloom, early in the fpring, 
in March, or April; and for both of which occaftons 
are generally trained in half and full ftandards: railed 
both from the ftones of the fruit, and by budding upon 
Flum, Almond, or Peach docks, efpecially for fruit- 
trees ; and trained with clean, ftraight Items, four or 
five, to fix or feven feet high, branching out at top 
into full heads; and are then planted in gardens and 
orchards to produce fruit; alfo in pleafure-grounds, 
fhrubberies, fore-courcs, &c. as ornamental flowering- 
trees, making a fine appearance in the fpring, in their 
numerous reddifh flowers: they are likewife trained, 
©ccafionally in wall-trees and efpaliers, to produce 
fruit in greater perfection; and in all which methods, 
they, in favourable fprings, produce plenty of Al¬ 
monds, ripening the kernels in autumn, very good for 
prefent eating: but as to the Jordan Almond, ten¬ 
derer than the Common, requires a warm fituation, or 
planted againft a fouth wall, if defigned a; a fruit-tree, 
though feldom produces fruit plentifully, «sr in good 
perfection, in this country; and therefore this, and the 
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filver-leaved kind, are commonly planted for ornament 
and variety, in fhrubberies, &c. 
And the Dwarf Almond (Amygdalus nana) bothinits 
Angle and double-flowered varieties, being very orna¬ 
mental flowering-plants, of low, fhrubby growth, pro¬ 
ducing numerous pale-red flov/ers, furrounding the 
fhoots their whole length, early in the fpring, (March 
and April) make a confpicuoufly pretty appearance: 
are commonly admitted in fhrubbery collections as moft 
beautiful flowering-fhrubs; planted towards the front 
of the clumps and other compartments, and propagates 
abundantly by fuckers and layers. 
But the Peach and NeCtarine being valuable, princi¬ 
pally as choice fruit-trees, for the many fine varieti-s of 
their refpeCtive fruits, and being of the mor ■ tender 
kinds of fruit-trees, at leaft in their blofloin and young 
fruit, require to be trained in the wall-tree order, againft 
warm fouth walls, or others of a foutherly afpeCt, as 
fouth-eaft and fouth-weft expofures; but the pri; oal 
fupply allotted full fouth walls, for, without the ai; fi¬ 
ance of warm walls, both to defend the tender, earlv 
bloflom and young fruit, in March and April, &c. 
as well as by the expanfion of the branches againft 
the walls to have all poflible benefit of the full fun, in 
the advanced growth of the fruit, it will not acquire 
good maturity, nor ripen effectually, in the peculiar 
perfection and rich flavour; and therefore the trees of 
all the different varieties of thefe two defirable fpecies 
Ihould always be trained principally in dwarf and half- 
ftandard wall-trees, planted againft the belt foutherlv 
walls aforefaid, at twelve to fifteen or eighteen feet 
diftance, and the branches arranged horizontally clofe 
to the wall, in the moft regular order, that they may 
have the belt protection thereof, when bloffoming and 
fetting their young, tender fruit, and to enjoy all poffi- 
ble benefit of the fun’s influence to forward its general 
growth, and ripening freely in proper feafon; as in 
this country thefe fruit do not ripen effectually well 
on detached-ftandard trees, nor in good perfection in 
efpaliers; though, for variety and experiment, fome 
dwar-ftrees may be planted in both thofe methods, in 
a warm, Iheltered fituation. 
For ornamental planting in fhrubberies, and other 
decorative compartments in pleafure-grounds, may in¬ 
troduce all the forts of Almonds and any varieties of 
Peaches, principally as beautiful, fpring flowering-trees, 
and to encreafe the variety in their general growth; 
particularly the Common Almond, in its two principal 
hardy varieties of the bitter and fweet-kernelled kinds; or 
alfo the Jordan Almond, white-flow'ered and filver-leav¬ 
ed forts, admitted in warm fituations; likew ife the two 
varieties of Amygdalus nana or Dwarf Almond, both 
very ornamental flowering-lhrubs ; together with the 
double-flowered and Dwarf Peach; all of which are 
very defirable ornaments for the fhrubbery, in their 
great profufion of early bloffom inthe fpring; and for 
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