r2i8 State Horticultural Society. 



• made of common basswood mattings, such as usually come around fur- 

 ' niture and other articles. When received it should be cut into strands 

 ' about a foot long and ripped into pieces about a half inch wide. 



Slipping the bud or bark is a very common expression among budders. 

 Ut occurs in the act of taking the bud from the stem. In cutting the 

 •bud'ffem the stem a small piece of the wood is usually removed with it. 

 BtJtXvhen the sap is flowing freely, budders only cut through the bark, 

 =attl. with the thumb and finger peel the bud, without any wood, from the 

 ;-.sfem, and this is called "slipping the bud." The proper place to insert 

 the bud is about one and a half or two inches above the ground. In ten 

 ^avs or two wppks after budding the buds should be examined. Those 

 that have taken will have a lively g-.t-een appearance, especially towards 

 the center, while those that have not taken'^wii'J be shrunken at the edges 

 and of a brown hue. One object of the examinatioir is to see if the ties 

 are cutting the buds. This occurs when the tie has'tVen promptly 

 drawn and the union prompt and complete. The tie should nL"'W be cut. 

 This is effected by a single stroke of a sharp knife drawn across^'uhe tie 

 on the opposite side to the bud, and at an acute angle with the stem CJ^ 

 the young tree. — J. A. Fulton in Peach Culture. — Kansas Farmer, Topeka,'^ 

 Kansas. 



THE PEACH PROBLEM. 



(By Dr. H. O. Beeson, Noel, Mo). 



Among the problems of peach growing none are more important than 

 the selection of locality and of varieties suitable to the existing climatic 

 coiidtions. 



Inasmuch as exactness of temperature range is impossible, the 

 extremes must be taken as the criterion. If the known varieties of the 

 peach will not withstand a midwinter temperature of i6 degrees below 

 ■zero, then the profit of peach growing must be in proportion to the num- 

 Iber of winters in which this temperature is reached, other things being 

 ccqual. To those of us who live in Southwest Missouri, this region and 

 this climate concerns us materially. We know that we have the soil 

 and the climate to produce as fine peaches as the world ever saw, but the 

 unfortunate occurrence of a midwinter temperature of i6 degrees below 

 zero or lower happens often enough to very greatly dampen the zeal of our 

 peach growers. Added to this is the too frequent killing frost in the 

 spring after the buds are swollen or open. With these conditions facing 

 us, our constant study and effort is to find some remedy to avoid such fre- 

 quent loss of the peach crop. Efforts have beea chiefly in the direction, of. 



