PREFACE 



The rapid specialization of all the fruit-growing 

 industries in North America has made the produc- 

 tion of peaches an art by itself. To keep pace with 

 such specialization it has been found expedient to dis- 

 cuss the management of the several fruit crops in 

 separate monographs. Peach growing is now a 

 large and important industry and deserves a book 

 of its own. 



The demand for such a book has existed for sev- 

 eral years, but special difficulties have been experi- 

 enced in meeting it. The work of preparing such a 

 book was undertaken by the late Charles Wright of 

 Delaware, and by the late Prof. W. G. Johnson of 

 the Orange Judd Company, but both gentlemen 

 died leaving the manuscripts unwritten. The writer 

 has, indeed, experienced many tedious and troublesome 

 delays, but has finally brought the work to completion 

 through the help of many kind friends. In writing this 

 book he has called to his aid a large number of prac- 

 tical peach growers in all parts of the United States 

 and Canada, whose help and advice he wishes most 

 cordially to acknowledge. To interpret properly their 

 wide and varied experience has been the author's prime 

 endeavor. 



F. A. WAUGH. 

 Massachusetts Agricultural College, 1913. 



