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another point. The chairman of the fruit committee of the 

 Massachusetts Horticultural Society has told me, that, for 

 the last three years, there have been no peaches in the horti- 

 cultural rooms of so high flavor as those that came from my 

 trees. The garden committee of that society, when they 

 went up to my place, passed a very large peach-orchard 

 in Concord, in which there were probably three thousand 

 baskets of peaches picked this year, and they said that they 

 did not find one really high-flavored peach in the orchard ; 

 but that on my place, which they visited on the same day, 

 it was entirely different. Now, I cannot see any other reason 

 for this, except the different method of manuring. 



I will Say in regard to my land, that, when Professor 

 Stockbridge was there last September, he said that if I 

 was in the western part of the State, they would shut me 

 up in the insane-hospital for trying to grow grapes, peaches, 

 or any thing of that kind, on such poor land. But the land 

 is better than it looks. 



Mr. Had WEN. Don't you think that thinning the fruit 

 will have as good an influence as manure in flavoring it ? 



Mr. Moore. You can take off one-half the peaches on 

 a peach-tree, if it sets ordinarily full, and you will have, 

 perhaps, just as many bushels of peaches, and the peaches 

 will be worth three times as much for being thinned ; and 

 of course, where they are allowed to perfect themselves, the 

 quality is better. 



Question. How about the borers? 



Mr. Moore. They do not trouble me much now. I be- 

 lieve I have got ahead of them. You all know, that, if there 

 are any peach-worms in a tree, you will find the gum around 

 the butt, and immediately under the bark (they do not go 

 into the tree much, as the apple-borer does) you will find 

 the borers. They can be cut out very easil}^ with a knife. 

 I, perhaps, have five hundred peach-trees. I thought I 

 would make up something that would suit the borers. 

 I know oil-soap is good. I don't know whether the other 

 ingredients I used amount to any thing, or not ; but I know 

 they make it thick. I put about twenty-five pounds of oil- 

 soap into a tub, and dissolved it ; then a bushel of cow- 

 manure, fresh from the stable, was put in and stirred up; 

 then a bushel of clay and five pounds of sulphur were 



