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Where shall we get our peach trees? from our own grounds; plant our own 

 seeds, raise our own trees, and see to our own budding. This is practicable 

 and with patience and perseverance all can do it. 



There is another protection against imposition in nursery stock whicli some 

 may think more feasible. It is to get our trees from home nurseries, from 

 men who are known to be truthful, men who are endeavoring to build up an 

 honest business. 



Steer clear of distant nurseries and encourage home industry. 



Mr. J. P. Wade answered the question, 



SHALL WE PLAXT MOKE PEACH TKEES? 



I say yes. I believe it to be an established fact in every country that as it 

 grows older the land accumulates in the hands of the few as owners, and the 

 farms are worked by tenants and hired help. 



In peach-growing sections the tendency seems to be to divide up into smaller 

 places, each owning his own homestead. 



To my mind tliis is a valuable feature, for in proportion as the people own 

 their own homes and share the responsibilities of society and government, just 

 in that proportion are they better citizens socially and morally, and our institu- 

 tions are safer and more permanent. 



Our soil is peculiarly adapted to peach-growing for the following reasons : 

 First, particular kinds and varieties of the peach require different soils, for 

 their successful cultivation, some require heav}^ and some light soils, and the 

 peach-grower in order to succeed well must raise a variety that ripen in suc- 

 cession ; this necessitates a variety of soils. This diversity of soil is a peculiar 

 characteristic of our vicinity that I have never seen equaled in any other section 

 of country, and yet we are tolerably free from heavy clay or drifting sands. 

 And in this section the peach attains its greatest size and excellence, as our 

 numerous exhibitions and first premiums have abundantly demonstrated, having 

 never failed of carrying off the first prize when we have competed for it. 

 There is one other essential of still greater importance, and that is climate. 



I believe that we are favored with a climate unexcelled if not unequaled in 

 this latitude between the Atlantic coast and the Kocky mountains, for the cor- 

 rectness of which I would refer you to the indications of the thermometer com- 

 pared with other places for the last ten years. 



More than all others it would seem that the farmer might and would be 

 possessor of a peach orchard at the present low price of trees, although it be 

 small. 



But what do we find? wheat, corn, etc., all good enough and desirable in 

 their place, but one doesn't want to live on this alone, we want something 

 more than bread and meat for breakfast, and meat and bread for dinner, and 

 what is left for supper. You may happen in some place where your diet will 

 consist of bread, dried apples and potatoes, early in the season, later the pota- 

 toes will be missino^ and women folks mav be seen searching: out of doors that 

 possibly they may find something green, every dock leaf is seized, and all the 

 cow slips are made away with, and if there happen to be a few currant or 

 gooseberry bushes their fruit will be laid under tribute about as soon as it is 

 out of blossom and before it is worth any thing it is all gone. 



Now wouldn't a can of good peaches, yes say 3G5 be more edible and healthy, 

 and would not a farm with a peach orchard on it command a better price than 



