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GARDENING. 



Sept. ij, 



PLANTING PEAGfl TREES. 



In the northern states peach trees are 

 better set in spring than fall, as newly 

 planted ones seem to suffer from the freez- 

 ings of winter. This applies more to one- 

 year than to t wo-year or older ones. But in 

 the north when plantings are made early 

 even one-year plants do fairly well, espe- 

 cially if well pruned, as they should be, 

 and mulched. In the south the planting 

 is carried on successfully from late fall till 

 early spring, whenever the ground is open 



There is no loss and much gain in giv- 

 ing the trees a close pruning when planted. 

 A one-year-old tree should be cut in 

 almost to the main shoot, and this one 

 should be shortened in unless trees highly 

 branched are required. In many of the 

 peach orchards of Delaware the trees 

 when set were cut back to within two 

 feet of the ground. This gives bush- 

 shaped trees, which it is claimed do better 

 there than standards In amateurs' gar- 

 dens it is usually preferred that trees be 

 pruned to branch at from three to four 

 feet from the ground, so the topping of 

 young trees should be at four feet. 



Peach trees require soil of good quality, 

 it being useless to look for success from 

 them in poor soil. Especially should this 

 be seen to for young trees, for unless a 

 young tree starts oft' well the first year or 

 two it is of but little use thereafter. 



There is a great deal of pleasure in the 

 raising of seedling peaches. Hardly any 

 fruit varies more than peach seedlings, 

 and usually everyone so raised is worthy 

 of being given a place in a garden. The 

 trouble is that we cannot tell what we 

 are going to get when we sow the stones, 

 whether late, early or what. Were it not 

 for this one could do almost as well set- 

 ting out seedlings as those of named 

 sorts. But as named ones give us not 

 only a choice of kinds to ripen at the time 

 required, but also a choice of quality, for 

 there is a great difference in this respect, 

 these sorts will always be the principal 

 ones planted. 



Appended is a list of a dozen sorts which 

 are well known as reliable ones. They 

 are listed in about the order they ripen 

 here, from the earliest to the latest: St. 

 John, Mt. Rose, Crawford Early, Reeves' 

 Favorite, Oldmixon, Wheatland, Globe, 

 Stump, Crawford Late, Elberta, Chairs' 

 Choice and Salway. Two early peaches, 

 Triumph and Lady Ingold, seem proving 

 excellent kinds. Both are very early, 

 large yellow freestones. 



Philadelphia. Joseph Meehan. 



WITCft GRASS IN THE LAWN, 



I would like advice in regard to witch 



grass. Have plowed my lawn once on 



its account and this fall it is as bad as ever. 



Beverly, Mass. M. M. M. 



It is hardly possible for you to get rid 

 of the grass unless you were to give up 

 your lawn. It can only be exterminated 

 by plowing up the grass as you did, har 

 rowing thoroughly, and then grow some 

 crop that will require constant cultiva- 

 tion, so that there will be no chance for 

 the grass to make growth. It would 

 take perhaps two years to rid the ground 

 of it, but there is no other way, as every 

 bit of root, no matter how small, will 

 produce a shoot in spring. 



We suppose you are referring to couch 

 grass, Triticum repens, and not to an- 

 other lawn pest, fall grass, which is an 

 annual. Couch, or witch grass, is a per- 

 ennial. 



SITUATION WANTBU — As private Hardener by 

 competent all round man. Thoroughly poBted In 

 the management of everything appertaining to a first- 

 class place. English: 25 yearB' experience; VI yearB In 

 America. JNO. Bland. Arnprlor, Ont.. Canada. 



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