tried this in a few cases, and in all of them the disease was stopped, and a sound, 

 healthy bark had entirely covered the wounds in autumn. It requires only just 

 the amount of time which every cultivator ought, for pleasure's sake, to spend 

 among his trees daily, and a little close watchfulness to discover the small black 

 spot in the bark and remove it. 



HYBRIDIZING, 



BY A. N. WYLIE, CHESTERVILLE, SOUTH CAROLINA. 



I HAVE been experimenting, for several years, in hybridizing. I have about 

 fifty trees, some of which have been tested, and the greater number of them will 

 bear this summer ; they are chiefly peaches and nectarines. My chief purpose is, 

 to fill up the space between the time of ripening of the heath cling (which ripens 

 here from 10th of Aug. to the 1st of Sept.) and our peaches, which ripen the last 

 of Oct. and 1st of Nov. I have, in late falls, seen soft peaches the 15th of Nov. 

 I am satisfied, that by the process of crossing, we can produce fine varieties, 

 ripening here from the last of May to the 1st of Nov. I will take occasion, this 

 summer, to make drawings, and give a full history of the result of my experiments. 

 Inclosed I send you an exact drawing, as regards size and form, of a peach which 

 was one of the last three remaining on the tree on the 15th of Sept. ; it was 

 produced by impregnating the heath cling with a large yellow freestone peach, 



PEACU FROM A HEATH CLIXO AKD A YELLOW FKEESTONE. 



