98 FRUIT BOOK. 



er words, four pieces of wood, from eight to ten 

 inches in height, should be placed around the 

 tree, sunk about two inches below the surface, into 

 which place fine charcoal, which will ordinarily 

 keep out the borer, which generally enters the tree 

 at or near the surface of the ground. We have 

 protected our trees the past season from the worm, 

 by taking thin lead (such as we find in tea chests), 

 and cutting it into strips of nine inches in width, 

 bending them close around the tree, three inches 

 below the surface of the ground, extending upon 

 the trunk six inches above the earth. 



In order to keep this tree low, the long shoots 

 should be shortened in July, to about one half 

 their length, always cutting at or near a single, 

 and not a double bud. Young peach trees should 

 never be placed upon the site of old roots of oth- 

 ers. They thrive best in new virgin soil, not 

 highly manured. In light and dry soil, early 

 autumn planting will answer ; but early spring we 

 generally prefer. Care should be taken, in trans- 

 planting, not to place the roots too deep in the 

 soil ; for from this circumstance more trees are in- 

 jured than by almost all other modes of planting 

 put together. The following are among the most 

 desirable kinds : 



Crawford's Early Melocoton I President, 



Early Royal George, 

 Cooledge's Favorite, 

 Bed and Yellow Rareripe, 

 Early York, 

 Malta, or Maltese, 

 Crawford's Late Melocoton, 



Hastings's Rareripe, 

 Morris's White, 

 Red Cheek Melocoton, 

 Grosse Mignonne, 

 Bellegarde, 

 George the Fourth. 



Early Ann. This is a small round fruit, with 

 a greenish white skin ; flesh melting and good. 



