PEACH AND NECTARINE TREES. 
72 t 
ARTICLE II. 
ON THE CULTIVATION OF ONIONS, IN PORTUGAL. 
BY I. T. 
Some years ago I was acquainted with a Portuguese gentleman, who 
assured me, that the chief cause of the superiority of the Portugal 
onions arose from the mode of culture, and that he grew quite as 
good ones in his garden in this country. He promised to give me 
in writing, a full account of the method, hut this was forgotten; I, 
however, recollect that he said, in that country they sow the onions 
in seed-beds, and always plant them out into deep drills, in which 
they are plentifully watered in dry weather, this not only gives them 
the larger size, but also renders them of a much milder flavour than 
those grown after the old system in England. 
I. T. 
ARTICLE III. 
ON TRAINING PEACH AND NECTARINE TREES. 
BY MR. SEYMOUR. 
I felt much surprised at the manner Mr. Harrison treated our me¬ 
thod of training peach and nectarine trees, in his article page 529, 
of the Register; the figures there given are altogether incorrect. 
Fig. 91, represents a tree nearly horizontal, and as he acknowledges 
to have seen our trees, he must have been aware they are not so; 
the side branches are shown as growing from the centre seven or 
eight inches apart, and single ; now in our trees they are only three 
or four inches, and all double or treble after the first year, as repre¬ 
sented in the second volume of the Gardeners’ Magazine, figures 
79 and 80, (which were taken from correct drawings, sent to Mr. 
Loudon by my father;) their elevation therefore must he much 
greater than you have represented, as the stem will be shorter when 
the wall is clothed with branches. Your figure 92 shews a succes¬ 
sion of ugly protuberances, not to be found on the trees under my 
father’s care, although some of them are nearly thirty years old. I 
do not consider the method ought to be condemned, because unskil¬ 
ful hands do not make it answer so well as he docs, for according to 
Mr. Harrison’s own confession, the plan answers better under my 
father’s management, than he ever saw it in other places. With re- 
