378 STATE HOETICULTTJRAL SOCIETY. 



The Peach's Ten Comiiiaiidinents. 



The basic principles of successful peach culture in Connecticut 

 are thus stated by J. H. Hale in a paper to the United States Pomolo- 

 gist, and he adds : "On these ten commandments hang most of the 

 law and all the profits :" (1) High, dry or sand-loam soil. (2) Careful 

 selection of varieties most hardy in fruit bud. (3) Vigorous, healthy 

 seedling stocks budding from bearing trees of undoubted purity and 

 health. (4) Trees given entire possession of the land from the start. 

 (5) Thorough culture from the opening of spring till the new growth is 

 well along. (6) Liberal annual manuring, broadcast, with commercial 

 manures rich in potash and phosphoric acid, and lacking in nitrogen. 

 (7) Low, leading and close annual pruning for the first five years. (8)' 

 Keep out most borers with some suitable wash and dig out all others. 

 (9) Search for traces of yellows every week of the growing season, and 

 at first sign pull up and burn every infested tree. (10) Thin the fruit 

 so that there shall never be what is termed a full crop. 



Peaches Betv^eeii Apple Trees. 



As apple trees are usually managed, it requires a long time for 

 them to come into beaiing. The trees are small when set, and if the 

 planter does not have an active imagination, forty feet distance between 

 the trees each way will seem altogether too large a space to be given 

 up for the trees. On the other hand, the peach tree lives only a few 

 years, grows rapidly and comes into bearing very young. An orchard 

 of peach trees may live, bear and be out of the way before the spread- 

 ing apple tree branches will find them in the way. For this season we 

 believe the practice of planting peach trees between apple trees to be 

 altogether a good one, provided some conditions are observed. The 

 soil must be rich enough in mineial fertility to furnish needed potash 

 for both growths. The failures in planting peach trees between rows 

 of apple trees come mainly from not observing this condition. The 

 peach crop will pay the expense of both orchards, and in the shelter 

 of the apple trees the trees will be less likely to be winter killed or to 

 have their fruit wasted by winds before it is ripened. As a further 

 advantage, the apple trees, finding their root growth restricted by the 

 peach tree growing between them, will begin bearing earlier than they 

 will if the apple trees have all the ground to themselves. — American 

 Cultivator. 



