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14 On Peach Trees. 
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dred apple and pear trees, besides the peaches, all of 
which evince its good effects: a load of forty bushels, 
after being exposed to the weather from October, till 
June served for about eighteen hundred trees. 
‘I have now given the result of my experiments, and 
will relate to you what has come under my observation. 
An ingenious farmer, Mr. Ashton, in my neighbour- 
hood a few years past, planted three hundred peach 
trees on about three acres of ground; I saw them last 
summer, they were very thriving, and he lately in- 
formed me he had gathered about five hundred bushels 
of good fruit and sold them readily on the ground at a 
dollar and fifty cents per bushel, he adopted no other 
mode to bring them to perfection than ploughing: he 
informed me that he had raised a crop of Indian corn 
on the ground every year since he planted the trees, 
and that without manuring, but the ground was in 
good order when he planted them. Thus, by the trifling 
labour of planting the trees which he raised from the 
stone, even without being inoculated, he obtained more 
money from those three acres than his whole farm 
would have rented for, and that too without losing one 
year’s crop from the ground, the faithful cultivation of 
which in procuring other crops insured him success in 
his crop of fruit. Thus you see the peach when con- 
stantly cultivated will succeed Mout lime or any ma- 
nure; though in grass grounds I am confident they 
would not. 
With respect to plumbs and nectarines I have tryed 
various experiments without success, and though I have 
about fifty trees which are healthy, blossom well and 
bring their fruit to a considerable size, yet they all drop 
