'Picquet's J^ate 'Peac?i. 151 



G-rafting the Grape on its Laterals. 



ED. Western Horticulturist : Your method of grafting the vine as described 

 in the Pomologist some months ago, is correct in accordance with my experience, 

 but I have improved a little on that. I find it unnecessary to graft at the root of 

 the vine and often inexpedient, but more successful to graft the side branches or 

 laterals of the vine. Two years ago I laid down two wild vines sixty feet in length 

 each, buried them in a trench ten inches deep, brought up their side branches above 

 ground suitable distances apart for grafting. I then set fifty lona grafts on those 

 branches just below the surface of the ground. Every graft lived and has made 

 strong, healthy vines. I left five of the branches until the 20th of July, and then 

 grafted with Delawares. Two of them failed to grow, the other three grew and 

 made about as much growth as the lona vines that were set early in the spring. 

 Vines can be propagated in this way with as much certainty as by layering. I have 

 found that cions of the Delaware do not take so well on the Clinton as they do on 

 the Wild or Taylor's Buttit. I have not tried grafting on the Concord ; Salem 

 lona, and Allen's Hybrid, take well on the Clinton. I presume Concord stocks 

 would be equally good. The main object is to have hard, healthy roots for stocks. 

 I have found very little difi'erence in the difi'erent modes of setting the grafts. 



Freeport, III. P. Manny. 



P. S. — I am reported in some of the papers to have said at the meeting of the 



Northern Illinois Horticultural Society, at Freeport, that June was the best time to 



graft the grape. I said no such thing, but directly the reverse of that. I find 



early spring the best time, and that as the season advanced; the chances of success 



diminished. After the 20th of June, I found it too uncertain, though some will 



live. I once set a few cions the 20th of July, only about one-half grew. I used 



old wood of the previous year's growth. I at the same time set a few cions cut from 



the same season's growth with better success. 



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Picquet's Late Peach. 



rPHE Rural Alabamian highly extols this peach for the South. Says: " It is the 

 -*- evidence of all who have fruited it, that it has no compeer. Large to very large, 

 bright yellow, and of the most excellent quality, it cannot fail to become one of our 

 most profitable market peaches, ripening as it does when good peaches are scarce, 

 and the trees being fine growers and abundant bearers. Season, first half of Septem- 

 ber ; freestone. 



" This magnificent peach originated in the orchard of Antoine Picquet, Bel-Air, 

 Georgia. In 1858 we cut the grafts from the original tree, which died the following 

 year. After fruiting it for four consecutive seasons, we put it in the trade, feeling 

 assured at that time that it was destined to become a most valuable market peach. 

 In this we have not been disappointed, and it is a source of congratulation to us to 

 have added this peach to our list of superior fruits and saved it from destruction. It 

 ripens with the Smock, to which it is immensely superior in size, appearance and 

 quality. The Salway also matures at the same time, but is also inferior to the Pic- 

 quets, from a limited experience in fruiting the former and from reports of others 

 who fruited both varieties side by side." 



