PEACHES. 217 



application for wounds made by the worm ; ashes and 

 lime, being caustic manures, are offensive to the worm; 

 marie has been successfully and extensively used as a 

 manure around peach trees several shovels full a- 

 round each tree with this management, a peach 

 orchard near a market, or on navigable waters, will 

 be a profitable application of land, but no precautions 

 will ensure its duration beyond two, or three, or at the 

 utmost four years. If it succeeds even for this short time, 

 with a judicions selection of kinds, the product will 

 amply remunerate the trouble and expense, beyond 

 any other mode of employing the land in this country. 



The proper soil for a peach orchard, is a rich san- 

 dy loam ; I have no recollection of a very productive 

 one on very stiff; or cold land. 



The following selection comprizes a succession of 

 the most admired kinds, cultivated in this .country. 



1. WHITE NUTMEG PEACH. 



Is very small, the juice sugary : it soon grows mea- 

 ly, and has little merit, except that of being the first 

 ripe. It is in season in July. See fig. 1. of Peaches* 



