The trees are at all times well attended to. I believe that quite as
good and as certain results could be attained with the peach in
many of the southern parts of England and Ireland, particularly if
its culture were made a speciality of as it is in France. When
cultivators devote themselves entirely to a subject, they soon learn
all its wants, and moreover, attend to them at the right moment —
a great point. But it is very different with private gardeners gene-
rally, whose hands are so very full of other matters in spring and
early summer, a time when the peach requires much attention ; and
the result is, that it is too often neglected for a week or two at that
season, and the result is a loss of health to the trees. There does
not seem much help for this in private gardens, and the only hope
is that, by the cropping of the borders as elsewhere suggested,
gardeners generally may find it worth while to devote more atten-
tion to walls than they usually do. I think it a matter for regret
that public attention has been to some extent called away from the



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many uses and advantages of walls in our climate, and that we have
made no progress in protecting or managing wall trees correspond-
ing with our advances in other respects. Some persons have gone
so far as to say that garden walls ought to be abolished altogether.
