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PEACH  CULTURE  UNDER  GLASS. 
SO  much  has  been  written  on  this'  important  crop 
that  it  is  seldom  one  meets  with  anything 
new  upon  the  subject,  and  in  this  note  I  am  not 
thinking  of  advancing  anything  that  has  not  been 
written  of  before.  My  aim  is  rather  to  condemn 
the  system  of  keeping  old  and  worn-out  trees, 
that  years  before  should  have  been  consigned  to  the 
rubbish  heap.  You  shall  enter  garden  after  garden 
in  which  new  varieties  of  flowers,  improved  vege¬ 
tables,  and  other  crops,  are  introduced  year  after 
year,  but  the  same  old  Peach  and  Nectarine  trees, 
that  have  done  more  than  their  duty,  are  allowed  to 
remain. 
It  is,  in  numerous  instances,  no  fault  of  the 
gardener  in  charge  that  such  things  are,  but  in 
others  it  undoubtedly  is,  and  why  the  making  of 
a  new  border  and  replanting  is  so  long  neglected 
is  remarkable.  When  the  subject  is  mentioned 
one  hears  various  excuses ;  the  crop  would  be  lost ; 
there  is  a  difficulty  about  a  supply  of  loam  for  a 
new  border,  and  other  alarms  are  instanced,  but 
really  it  is  not  such  a  formidable  affair  after  all. 
Perhaps  it  is  not  “always  possible  to  get  exactly 
what  one  may  wish,  but  in  such  cases  it  is  wise 
to  make  the  best  of  what  is  at  hand,  and  I  could 
mention  instances  of  very  successful — even  remark¬ 
ably  successful — culture,  where  the  conditions  at 
first  were  far  from  promising. 
To  instance  an  imaginary  garden  where  loam 
is  scarce ;  there  are  clippings  of  grass  edgings, 
oddments  of  turf  from  alterations  to  flower  beds  or 
lawns,  and  the  refuse  soil  from  the  potting  bench. 
All  such  material,  decayed  by  laying  in  a  heap 
for  a  few  months,  is  extremely  useful,  and  with 
the  kitchen  garden  soil  will  make  a  compost  quite 
good  enough  to  produce  splendid  Peaches  and 
Nectarines.  Then  the  ash  from  a  garden  smother, 
where  the  whole  of  the  woody  odds  and  ends  are 
charred,  is  one  of  the  most  valuable  additions  to 
the  compost  or  material  for  top-dressing.  Were 
fruit  borders  oftener  dressed  in  autumn  and  spring 
with  this,  instead  of  cold  sloppy  manure,  the 
results  would  be  far  better. 
AN  AGE  OF  SPECIALISTS. 
20,000 
Trained  Trees  to 
Select  from. 
50,000 
Apples  on  Paradise 
For  considerably  over  a  century  our  firm  has  been  noted  for  the 
careful  cultivation  of  Fruit  Trees,  and  has  built  up  a  reputation  by 
sending  out  Trees  TRUE  TO  NAME.  During 
the  past  Sixteen  Years  we  have  greatly  extended  our  Culture 
of  Fruit  Trees,  and  having  given  up  the  cultivation  of  all 
General  Nursery  Stock  in  favour  of  these  and  Roses,  we  may 
fairly  claim  to  he  Fruit  Tree  Specialists.  To-day  we  are 
pushing  the  matter  still  closer,  and  make  a  Speciality  (without 
neglecting  other  branches  of  Fruit  Tree  Culture)  of 
ESPALIER  TRAINED 
TREES. 
Last  Season  we  had  a  Stock  of  over 
20,000,  a  stock  which  for  excellence  or 
number  we  believe  to  he  without  parallel. 
The  above  shows  a  sample  Tree  from 
photo;  we  have  Apples,  Pears,  and 
Plums  trained  in  this  form.  Peaches, 
Nectarines,  Apricots,  Cherries,  &c., 
as  fan-trained  Trees.  We  were  the  first 
to  grow  Plums  as  horizontally  trained 
Trees,  a  method  which  suits  them  in¬ 
finitely  better  than  any  other. 
DESCRIPTIVE  CATALOGUE ,  with  article 
on  Planting ,  Pruning ,  &c.,  6d.,  Gratis 
to  Customers. 
J.  R.  PEARSON  &  SONS,  Chilwell  Nurseries,  NOTTS 
Vo.  945.— VOL.  XXXVII.,  THIRD  SERIES. 
No.  2601.— VOI.  XCIX.,  OLD  SERIES 
