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ON GROWING FRUIT-TREES IN POTS. 
less air and light than other fruit, and, as before observed, may be 
ripened at any season where there is convenience. 
Cherries, (the May Duke,) if first fairly established in pots, may be 
forced successfully, if not excited too early or too rapidly. They are 
best forced in a house by themselves; but those in pots will sometimes 
do pretty well in the coolest end of a late-worked peach-house or 
vinery, provided that they can have moisture enough bestowed before 
and after flowering, and up to the time of ripening. The trees should 
be kept pretty closely stopped, to increase the number of spurs on which 
the fruit are borne. They require shifting, especially if they have been 
fruitful, every second or third year; and, like other potted trees, 
require mulching, and occasional applications of manured water. 
Peach and nectarine trees may be kept and forced in pots, or boxes 
made for the purpose. The dwarf-growing kinds are chosen for 
potting; and if they were double-worked, as suggested at the beginning 
of these observations, it would tend to ensure moderate growth and early 
prolificacy. It is stated by Mr. Rogers, in his “ Fruit Cultivator,” 
lately published, that he knew a “ Mr. Brown, gardener to the late 
Lord Cremorne, at Chelsea, who kept all his trees in tubs and boxes, 
like orange-trees, for years, and supported in such confined situations 
chiefly by the use of soft manured water. Horse-droppings, and a little 
soot, were the only substances employed to enrich the liquid. Mr. 
Brown’s favourite sorts for growing and forcing in this manner were, 
the French Mignon, Early Admirable, Millet’s Mignon, Violet Native, 
and, for later fruit, the Bellegarde, or Galland. The Noblesse he con¬ 
sidered too large for his mode of forcing.” This account is quoted to 
show that these fine fruits may be had in great quantities from the 
same peach-house, or may be matured in houses appropriated to other 
purposes. It is true, we often see the fruit on potted plants drop 
before it comes to perfection; but this is invariably owing to too 
hasty forcing, and want of sufficient moisture. 
Plants in pots or boxes are certainly more liable to be affected by 
atmospheric changes than those planted in the ground, and conse¬ 
quently require more attention in watering, and keeping the atmosphere 
of the house as uniform as to humidity and temperature as possible. 
But these would be no obstacles in the way of the manager who knows 
his business, and who is resolved to do his duty. 
The most splendid dessert ever set on a table in this country, per¬ 
haps, was at a banquet given to his late Majesty, King George IV, 
when Prince of Wales, by the late J. J. Angerstein, Esq., at his seat 
at Woodlands, in Kent. It was, we believe, early in the season ; but, 
notwithstanding this, every kind of fruit produceable in English 
