PEACHES AND NECTARINE-TREES. 
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Cameron, I reiterate mv anathema against it. He appears to rest 
upon the opinion of Mr. Seymour, Jun., and I have authority to 
state, that Mr. Seymour’s son, at Ealing, and another son in the 
south of England, have never had the opportunity of seeing their 
father’s system in its now perfected state. As to the driving of nails 
on this system, I would merely observe, that many are driven which 
are never intended to be withdrawn; for on the removal of one tree 
and the substitution of another, the system is in such strict uniform¬ 
ity, that the nails to which string is attached are generally as appli¬ 
cable to one as the other : and their being well driven home renders 
them less offensive to the eye. 
With reference to his quotation respecting the use of a wash 
whilst the trees are in bloom, page 676 ; if Mr. C. will turn to the 
last sentence on page 673, Vol. 1, he will perceive that it is a detail 
of the treatment of trees practised at a particular place, and that it 
is not urged by me as absolutely necessary. However, I have seen 
it applied during the blooming season, and no scarcity of fruit re¬ 
sulted therefrom. Still 1 will not advocate the necessity of its adop¬ 
tion, being of opinion that its free application, immediately after the 
first opening of the blossom-buds, would be attended with prejudicial 
ellects. 
Having noticed each of Mr. Cameron’s objections, and answered 
them, I trust, to his satisfaction, let me remark in conclusion, that if 
in candidly expressing my opinion of the relative merits or defects 
of these systems, my inexperience in writing, and the ardour of my 
youth have betrayed me into the use of any intemperate language, 
such was not my design. In fact, I feel more obliged than offended 
by Mr. Cameron’s dispassionate remarks. 
In speaking of the perfected state of Mr. Seymour’s system, I beg 
to be understood as referring definitively to peaches and nectarines 
only; although the same mode of training is applicable to several 
kinds of pears, to plums, and to Morelia cherries on north walls.— 
On this subject, I may probably furnish a paper at some future op¬ 
portunity. 
Henry Dyson. 
Baslow y May 10//;, 1833. 
