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THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE OF AMERICA. 



QUERIES and ANSWERS 



ll'c believe the greatest good can be accomplished for the greatest 

 number, by instituting a query column; or an exchange of expe- 

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You are invited to contribute questions, and answer others. 



Bach question as received will be given a number, the question- 

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IVe all have something we would like to know more about. Here 

 is your opportunity to ascertain somebody's experience in just that 

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Take advantage of this "Question Box." 



I would like to ask some of your readers which varie- 

 ties of trained peach trees are the best to grow on 

 walls outside; also can nectarines be grown that way 

 and finished good? Are the English varieties of 

 peaches and nectarines, the same as we force in the 

 greenhouse, all right for that purpose? — H. 



Regarding- the question asked in your June number 

 about peaches and nectarines for outside growing, we 

 have the following varieties, growing outside, trained on 

 a wall — Thomas Rivers, Diamond, Dr. Hogg, Royal 

 George, Crimson Galande, Hales Early and Crawford's 

 Early. They have fruited splendidly every year until the 

 present, but last winter being so cold, all the fruit buds 

 were killed, not only on these trees but on all the peach 

 trees around this part of the country. 



We put a burlap curtain hung on wires in front of 

 them in tlie early spring, more as a protection against 

 late frosts, when they are in bloom, than any winter pro- 

 tection. We slide these curtains along- during the day 

 and tie then-i between every second tree. We were told 

 when we planted them we would never get a peach on 

 account of the hot weather in the summer, but we have 

 not had any trouble that way so far, and they make 

 splendid growth during the summer. Regarding the 

 nectarines : we have a tree of Rivers oranges, growing- 

 well on a wall. C. G.\ttrell, Xewburyport, Mass. 



I have some Costess blue spruce, about ten feet 

 high. From midway up they do not spread out in what 

 some people would call in proportion. What is the 

 best way to develop them — pinching in the tops of all 

 side branches, or cutting out, say eighteen inches of 

 the leads? — J. J. O. Mass. 



Keplying to question about regaming symmetry in 

 Blue Spruce. In July pinch back about half way, the 

 lateral leaders of the current year's growth, from the 

 lower half of the tree, leaving- those of the upper half 

 practically untouched. Continue this for a season or two 

 until the tree regains its symn-ietry. Then the upper 

 half can be pinched back or sun-imer pruned, as this 

 process is often called, to encourage thickening. It will 

 take two or three years to accomplish what is desired. 



As a rule it is not wise to prune back the central 

 leaders unless it is very vigorous, when it can be pinched 

 back to encourage lateral shoots to burst out. 



Give the trees a good mulcl-iing of well decayed 

 manure. Following transplanting, there is occasionallv 

 a lack of symmetry, but in tin-ie, under good care, tliis 

 will be regained. — J. F. J. 



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