THE PEACH IN THE NORTH. 



once become firm, they break with more difficulty, and take a longer time. From the 

 points B.B. where the shoots had been stopped, several branches will break, but not more 

 than two should be suffered to grow from each shoot; that number will be sufficient to fill 



No. 7 — The perfect tree at the end of the third year, capable of producing a fruit crop thefolloiving season. 



up the tree, allowing the wood a proper distance; and in some cases where the wood ap- 

 pears to be getting too thick or crowded, only one shoot should be allowed to grow; when 

 these have again reached the length of 15 or 18 inches, another stopping takes place at 

 O.C., in precisely the same way as the former (at B.B.,) allowing about the same number 

 of shoots to grow; on these becoming once more 15 to 18 inches in length, a stopping for 

 the third time will be required at D.D., and the shoots laid in as in the former stoppings. 

 These stoppings will in general be sufficient for ordinary trees, but in the case of very 

 strong trees they will require four, and ripen the whole of the wood well. I have said 

 from 15 to 18 inches between each stopping, but it may in particular cases require a little 

 more or less in order to properly regulate the wood over the trellis as well as to preserve 

 the symmetry of the tree. 1 take for granted whilst this stopping has been going on, no 

 care was wanting to preserve the shoots and leaves, clean, healthy, and free from insects. 

 At the expiration of our third year the tree has the appearance of No. 7, and will have 

 covered a great many square feet of trellis; it is now full of bearing wood from the stem 

 of the tree to the extremities of the branches, all of which will be properly ripened and 

 matured; the latter is accomplished in England on walls, and there will not be the least 

 difficulty in the splendid climate we here possess. In the spring of the fourth year, the 

 tree demands but little pruning, merely shortening the extremities of the shoots from six 

 to nine or twelve inches, as may be found necessary; our trees are now strong and thrifty; 

 they are also beautifully symmetrical, and we may now expect an abundant crop; at the 

 same time T would entreat of every grower, not to be over severe on his trees by allowing 

 them to bear too- freely ; rather err upon the opposite side, by well thinning the frui 

 this means the fruit will be more beautiful, and the trees preserved in thrifty gro 



