150 Peach Rot. 



These processes of budding, grafting, and inarching, are useful in 

 cases where layers or cuttings strike root with difficulty, and where the 

 shrub does not " come true " from seed, or refuses to bear seed at all. 

 This brings us to the last mode of propagation, — that by seed, — and 

 as this article is already too long, we will speak of it in another 

 number. 



PEACH ROT. 



By Parker Earle, South Pass, 111. 



The Hale's Early would be one of the most valuable peaches in 

 cultivation but for its great and generally fatal fault of rotting on the 

 tree. There are few peaches so hardy in winter and spring frosts ; 

 none bear earlier, and none bear heavier and finer crops. And yet 

 few peaches have proved less profitable, notwithstanding its season 

 gives it every advantage in the market. In one section of the West 

 no early peach has been so largely planted, and no orchard planting 

 has been attended with so much loss. Everywhere its promise in the 

 spring and early summer is of the brightest, and everywhere its harvest 

 time is crowned with bitter disappointment. This is the common 

 report. But it is encouraging to be able to remark some exceptions. 

 Two or three parties in our neighborhood, and one other in an adjoin- 

 ing county, within my knowledge have the past season saved large and 

 profitable crops of Hale's *Early. These orchards are all located on 

 a rich clay loam soil. The whole secret of success is in the faithful 

 killing of the curculio, and in the picking ofi' every day and destroying 

 all peaches commencing to rot. 



The facts about peach rot seem to be, that all peaches arc more or 

 less exposed to it, and that its spread depends on mechanical injuries 

 of the peach (by curculio mainly), conditions of the weather, hardi- 

 ness of the variety to resist it, and the general freedom of the locality 

 from the infection. It has been often observed that some of the first 

 peach crops in a locality, or the first crop in an isolated orchard, have 



