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The Canadian Horticulturist 



The large space d is the ice bin and the dotted lines cc and ee show openings in 

 the floor. The parallel dotted lines b b^ are two square box tubes for conveying 

 warm air to the ice. The tubes pass through the floor at the lines «, pass on the 

 floor to cc, when they turn upward at a right angle and empty the air directly 

 on the store of ice. At e e, the partition for retaining the ice is slatted so that 

 the air passes freely through it, dropping to the lower room. This method 

 keeps the air in constant, but not rapid, motion. On the occasion of a recent 

 visit to this cooler, it was being almost exclusively used for peaches. Messrs. 

 Barnes & Son are large peach growers and they find the cooler of great benefit 

 to them. 



The peaches are picked in tray crates, such as are in common use among 

 vineyardists in Western New York. They are very convenient, having slatted 

 sides, thus affording an air circulation, and can be piled on the other as high as 

 is desirable without injuring the fruit. When peaches are wanted, they are 

 assorted, packed and shipped. The ripening of the peaches is retarded about 

 a week or ten days, and it in no way impairs the quality of the fruit. A special 



Fig. 715. 



Fig. 716. 



favorite is the Late Rose peach, and a walk in their peach orchard never fails 

 to impress its value on the spectator. It is a very productive sort — it must be 

 severely thinned if large, handsome fruit is desired. This they do, pulling off 

 from one-half to three-quarters of the young fruit. The trees were heavily loaded, 

 despite this severe thinning, with fruit of brilliant color and marvellous size. 

 No stable manure is wanted in their peach orchards, they rely mainly on potash 

 and phosphoric acid, which they find in wood ashes, kainit and ground bone. 

 They prune differently from the methods in general use. Their trees are headed 

 low in the beginning and they keep them so, cutting out large branches as freely 

 as small ones, to accomplish their purpose. To grow high colored peaches is to 

 get good prices, and to secure this color they use potash freely. An illustration 

 is given of a bisected fruit, showing the comparative size of the stone, in Fig. 

 716, and in Fig. 715 one of an uncut specimen, both of which illustrations are a 

 trifle under half the natural size. The fruit is white-fleshed, a perfect free stone, 

 of high quality and a good seller." 



