POPULAR AND VALUABLE VARIETIES OF FRUIT. 31 



quince. All are vigorous and handsome growers, hardy, and bear well. — 

 Barry. 



Slimmer — Beurre Giffard, Brandywine, Tyson, Osband's Summer, Edmunds, 

 Clapp's Favorite. 



Autionn — Belle Lucrative, Urbaniste, Duchessc d'Angouleme, Beurre 

 d'Anjou, ])oyenne Boussock, Beurre Diel, Buffuni, Beurre Langelicr, White 

 Doyenne, Beurre Superfin, Louise Bonne de Jersey, Howell. 



M'inter — Easter Beurre, Glout Morceau, Vicar of Winkfield, Jaminette, 

 Doyenne d'Alencon, Lawrence, Josephine de Malines. 



PEACHES. 



To secure healthy, vigorous, and fruitful trees, and fine fruit, the following 

 points must be well attended to in peach culture : 1st. Keep the ground clean 

 and mellow around the trees, and give it an occasional dressing of wood ashes. 

 2d. Keep the heads low — the trunks ought not to exceed three feet in height. 

 3d. Attend regularly every spring to pruning and shortening the shoots of the 

 previous year's growth. This keeps the head round, full, and well furnished 

 with bearing wood. Cut weak shoots back about one-half, and strong ones 

 one-third ; but see that you have a sufficient supply of fruit buds. Sickly 

 and superfluous shoots should be cut out clean. It should always be borne in 

 mind that the fruit is borne on wood of the last season's growth, and hence 

 the necessity for keeping up a good supply of vigorous annual shoots all over 

 the tree. The plum stock is advantageous in stiff clay, cold, and damp soils. 

 — Barry. 



The peach borer, a white grub about three-fourths of an inch long, fre- 

 quently does a great deal of injury to this tree by girdling and devouring the 

 bark just beluw the surface. Its presence may be discovered by removing a 

 few inches of the soil, where will be found a sort of gum, mixed with the 

 castings of the grub, resembling saw-dust. It is then easily removed and de- 

 stroyed. A half peck of air-slacked lime or leached ashes placed around the 

 trunk of the tree in May, and allowed to remain until October, affords a good 

 protection against the depredations of this pest. In the cultivation of the 

 peach we would recommend the shortening-in system. This should be done 

 in February or March. Cut off from one-third to one-fourth of the previous 

 years growth. This course should be pursued every year. There is a great 

 difference, in the appearance at least, between those that have been shortened 

 in and those that have been left to themselves. The trees so treated live 

 longer, are broken down less by the wind, produce larger and better fruit, 

 which is more easily gathered than from ti'ees grown by the old method. — 

 Ilgenfritz. 



The peaches recommended by the Society are as follows: 



Marhet — Hale's Early (dry soil and open exposure), Wheeler's Early, Cool- 

 idge's Favorite, Honest John (of Michigan), Crawford's Early, Barnard (of 

 Thomas), Old Mixon Free, Jacques' Eareripe, Crawford's Late (on clay). Hill's 

 Chili, Smock Free (southern lake shore), Keyport White (southern lake shore), 

 Stump the World, Foster (of Downing). 



Family — Hale's Early, Coolidge's Favorite, White Imperial, Barnard (of 

 Thomas), Honest John (of Michigan), Crawford's Early, Old Mixon Free, 

 Crawford's Late, Hill's Chili, Smock Free. 



Note bv S^eckktary. — It must be recollected that the shoi-tcnini,'-in proces?, reco 

 Barry and others, is eutirelj' discarded by the most extensive peach-growers of Jlichigau. 



recommeuded l>v Mr. 



