stone Fruits. 361 



I \\'ish to say iu regard to peach trees, cut tlfe roots very short and 

 all the limbs or branches off close to the tree, and the top off so it will he 

 only a stub from fourteen to twenty inches high. 



By so doing you can make a nice low top, but when the shoots begin 

 to start you must keep close watch of them and cut off all that starts, 

 except where you want a branch, and take pains that you do not start two 

 branches from the same height, or it will make a forked tree and be easily 

 split. — A. Schultz, of Indiana, in Farm, Field and Fireside. 



EXPEEIEXCE WITH FEOZEX PEACH TREES. 



After the hard freeze of last February we examined our trees care- 

 fully to ascertain the extent of damage and to make up our minds as to 

 the proper treatment. After a thorough examination of the trunks and 

 branches we concluded that there was enougli life and vitality left for them 

 to recuperate if properly headed in and thinned out. So we cut back 

 and thinned out all such limbs as the trees could spare without destroying 

 their form, thus reducing the evaporation that would occur later on. 



The results are handsome tops with healthy, vigorous growth that 

 has every prospect of setting a good supply of fruit buds for the next 

 season's crop. This is as we expected, but there was a time during the 

 efforts of the trees to survive that we were about ready to go back on our 

 own judgment. This critic"^l period was when the first foliage had 

 exhausted the food stored the previous season, and owing to the enfeebled 

 condition of the tree the root growth could not come to the support of the 

 first leaves in time to save them. This was when they looked to be dying. 

 The leaves turned yellow and came off in showers, and we almost lost 

 confidence in our judgment as to frozen peach trees and how to treat 

 them. It does not require much effort to make us see the mistakes of 

 others, but to have to acknowledge the error of our ovn\ ideas is quite a 

 different thing. 



In conclusion will say that we are well pleased with our trees and 

 hope there are many others who have orchards that are showing up as 



