PEACHES AND APRICOTS. 163 



.0 grow, have proved, as a class, much hardier 

 both in tree and fruit bud than the budded varieties. 

 For this reason \ve recommend those who live 

 much north of the peach belt, to plant pits from 

 northern grown fruit. There is little loss, even if 

 no fruit whatever is produced, while the chances 

 are that the little ground occupied by the trees will 

 at frequent periods give good returns for its use. 

 If nothing better the trees will be worth their room 

 for firewood, as the peach will make it nearly as 

 rapidly as any of the trees that are planted with 

 that express object. 



Plant in the fall as soon as the fruit is borne, 

 plant in rows, 6 to 8 feet apart, and the pits a foot 

 or more in the rows. The first winters they should 

 all be covered, after that let them try which has 

 the best right to life, and the weak ones will be 

 cut out from year to year and in this way those 

 remaining will be thin enough, perhaps, to bear 

 several crops with little attention. 



To illustrate this: A Mr. Joseph Katiffman, who 

 lives in Township 98, Range 55, in Turner Co., S. 

 D., planted a number of peach pits from Nebraska 

 grown fruit in about the year 1881, and in 1891 

 had a crop of from 8 to 10 bushels, and had fruit 

 for his family in '92 and '93, and some at various 

 times previous to this. 



When we consider that these trees went through 

 more than 30 degrees below in the winter of 1889- 

 90 and bore this fine crop of fruit in 1891; it seems 

 little less than marvelous. 



