196 Fruit 



PEACHES 



When the "June drop" is over and before the 

 pits harden is the right time to thin peaches on 

 trees that are heavily laden, and to produce fine 

 large peaches, a heavily laden tree should always 

 be thinned. A limb should not be permitted to 

 hang downward heavy with fruit or the peaches 

 will be small and not very luscious. 



Peach pits, plum stones, and stones of other fruit 

 should never be permitted to dry out thoroughly 

 if they are to be saved for seed. They should be 

 taken from very ripe fruit, carefully packed in a 

 box of moist soil, and kept in a dark place until 

 October, the natural planting time, as they will 

 then have all winter in which to germinate and 

 sprout ready for the spring. 



Peaches should be picked when they are mature 

 and before they begin to soften. They should be 

 handled very carefully in order not to bruise them 

 if they are to be kept for any length of time. 



Spraying for peaches affected with leaf-curl and 

 San Jose scale should be done in the spring with 

 lime sulphur; for brown rot, scab, leaf spot, and 

 curculio, just after the blossoms fall, with lime 



