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what are called the Brompton Stock, the Brussels or St. Julian
stock ant the Mussel plum stock --The Culture of Fruits and Vegetables. by George Glenry.
London. Houlston & Wright, 1860. p. 50.

[Curculio stung peaches ripen prematurely.]

"A Pin-ap's plant of almost any age may be thrown into fruit
by an hour of two's exposure to a frosty atmoshere in winter,
or by scorching the roots n an overhot tarbed at any season."
Encyclopedia of Gardening. J. C. Loudon. London, 1827. p. 192.

[Compare Plice polonica with yellows.]
Cr. View of the Cultivation of Fruit Trees (Phila. 1817).
By Wm. Coxe, of Burlington, N.J.

"The best peaches in Europe are at present [1827] grown
in Italy on Standards."--Loudon i.e. p. 712.

"The leaves of the peach tree are very liable to the
attacks of the acarus, its greatest enemy."--Loudon, i.e.
p. 713.

"New varieties [of apricots] are procured from seed as
in the peach, and approved sorts are perpetuated by budding,
generally on muscle or plum stocks."--Loudon, i.e. p. 720.

"The peach is sometimes successfully cultivated as far
north as Burlington, or even in Montreal.  More that fifty
bushels have been picked in one season from a single garden
        