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you have room for it, and so is the Rockport. But 

 for my own choice I prefer of all cherries the May 

 Duke, coming into a class about half way between 

 the sweet and the sour. The trees like to stand about 

 fifteen feet high, are almost as hardy as the sour 

 sorts, and the quality when dead ripe is absolutely 

 satisfactory nothing more can be asked for. 



I would grow peach trees for the flowers, if there 

 were no such wonderful things as peaches. I have 

 them in New York State, in Michigan, and am now 

 planting them in Florida. My colored friend says, 

 " Well, suh, Mr. Powell, seems to me the peach is 

 about all good things in one. It is pretty for sartin, 

 like the sunset, and it is good for a Christian, and it 

 is all right only it ain't satisfyin'. I can fill yup 

 with melyon, but I can't fill yup with peaches." I 

 think he hits the mark exactly. The peach never 

 surfeits ; that is good peaches do not. 



I would plant by preference Crosby, Champion, 

 Alton, Admiral Dewey, and Stump the World. In 

 Florida we have to make our choice from another 

 set of peaches. We plant the Victor, the Triumph, 

 the Mayflower, the Champion, the Jewell, and others 

 from the Southern China stock. 



Spraying in the orchard does not differ very much 

 when applied to the different sorts of fruit. If the 

 arsenites and Bordeaux mixture are used together, 

 they cover the whole problem of insects and fungi, 

 but if freely applied to plums and cherries and 



