166 On the Management of Peach Trees. 



White Seek-no-Further. — When the specimens arc well 

 grown, and the fruit fully ripe — say, in January, there is no 

 apple superior to this variety. With these remarks, I will 

 close this first chapter on apples. 



Roxbury, March 19M, 1849. 



We need hardly comment upon the communication of our 

 friend, Mr. Walker, President of the Massachusetts Horticul- 

 tural Society. For several years, while Chairman of the Fruit 

 Committee of the Society, all, or a greater part, of the apples in 

 the above list have repeatedly passed under his eye, and he is 

 thus enabled to speak of their qualities, in addition to his ex- 

 perience as a cultivator. We trust soon to give a selection 

 of other fruits from his pen, and, in the mean time, we would 

 commend the list to all who, at the season now approaching 

 for planting, are making a selection of apples. — Ed. 



Art. VI. Oft the Management of Peach Trees. By R. B. 

 Leuchars, New Haven, Conn. 



Having attentively studied the cultivation of the Peach, 

 among the cold, bleak, barren hills of the north of Scotland, 

 as well as in the more temperate districts of the south of Eng- 

 land, I herewith send you a few remarks upon that subject, 

 which, I hope may be useful to some of your readers, at least, 

 in those places where — as in this quarter — the peach is little 

 better than a cumberer of the ground, and where, if some 

 regenerative principle be not adopted, it is very likely to 

 become soon a sort of a vegetable nonentity, among the fruit 

 trees around it. With a superior soil, and a far more favora- 

 ble chmate than Britain affords, there are, nevertheless, 

 many places where peaches are more expensive in their cul- 

 ture, and less productive than in that country: depending al- 

 most entirely upon the unaided efforts of nature, it would 

 appear cultivators presume too much upon the possession of 

 these physical advantages in the growth of this noble fruit. 

 They seem to lull themselves into a kind of lethargic indiffer- 

 ence, which proves fatal alike to their purses and to their 

 peach trees. Many console themselves with the reflection, 



