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to be a light circular frame covered with cheap muslin, with an opening in 

 the center to admit the operator and suspended to the shoulders with wide 

 straps, and a slit or opening in front to admit the tree. Armed with abroad 

 brimed hat, a two poimd hammer and the catcher, you can walk up to and 

 straddle the trunk of the tree with the slit in the catcher until the tree is near 

 the center, then strike one of the stumps (never strike any part of trunk with 

 anything) spoken of in the chapter on pruning, a sharp blow, back out and 

 repeat at each tree. At the end of each bout sweep the catcher and souse the 

 bugs into a pail of water that has had a gill of coal oil poured in it. Bugging 

 should be done each morning, early. A catcher twelve feet in diameter will 

 be large enough for an old tree if w^ell pruned, and a smaller one will do 

 for young trees. 



MARKETING, ETC. 



The package to be used will be a matter governed by the tastes of shippers. 

 Consumers prefer baskets, but dealers say the boxes are best to handle. Let 

 the package be what it may, alwaj's be sure it holds just what it purports to, 

 and that the fruit in sight is a fair index to the whole contents, and then put 

 your name or trade mark on every package and take your chances on the 

 market, always remembering that buyers keep a black book and are not slow 

 to put your name in it if your fruit don't come to the proper standard. 



And now, to sum up the whole matter of peach growing, if you have a good 

 location and soil, with plenty of muscle and vim, you can go into peach 

 growing with a fair show of success. But if you expect to plant trees and 

 harvest the enormous imaginary crops you often read about, without hard 

 work and plenty of it, you will be sadly mistaken. 



GRAPE CULTURE AND CIVILIZATION. 



BY ISIDOR BUSH, OP MISSOURI. 



The history of grape culture is as old as history itself ; we might say, it is 

 pre-historic. Egyptian tradition makes Osiris the founder of the culture of 

 the vine ; and grape seeds are found with the oldest EgyjJtian mummies. The 

 myths of Greece claim the honor of planting the vine for Bacchus, the son 

 of Zeus. Holy Writ tells us that father Noah planted the vine which, accord- 

 ing to legend, God himself had given him from Paradise, as a reward after 

 suffering the cares and pangs of the flood, commanding him to "take good 

 care of it." And, truly, this one command of the Lord the descendants of 

 Noah have well obeyed up to this day. History tells us that kings, empe- 

 rors, and even bishops, the princes of the church, fostered and promoted the 

 culture of the grape Empev(jr Carolus, the Great, sent vines from Orleans 

 (France) to be transplanted on the "Heights of Ingolsheim," and, according 

 to a popular legend, preserved in songs, the great emperor arises annually, 



