44 PEACH CULTURE. 



stocky. Should they flag, however, during the season, 

 they may be stimulated and advanced by the application 

 of artificial manures, especially by liquid ones. The last 

 should be applied with a watering-can, between sundown 

 and dark, directly at the roots of the trees. A very good 

 method to apply guano or superphosphate, is to run a 

 small furrow as near the rows on each side as can be done 

 without injury to the roots, throwing it from the trees. 

 Then sow the manure in the furrow at the rate of six 

 hundred pounds of guano, and a thousand of superphos- 

 phate, to the acre. Now reverse the order, and run a 

 furrow on the outside of the first, throwing it to the rows. 

 In this way the manure will be thoroughly distributed, 

 deposited exactly where wanted, and well covered up. 

 The subsequent rapid growth of the trees should soon 

 give evidence of its powerful eifect. 



When the trees have attained such a growth as to shade 

 the ground between the rows sufficiently to keep it moist, 

 all cultivation should cease. Should weeds appear in the 

 rows after this, they must be pulled up ; but this will 

 seldom occur unless foul manure has been used. 



It sometimes happens that, through the inexperience or 

 carelessness of the seed planters, the young trees come up 

 too thick ; when this occurs, the superfluous ones should 

 be pulled up. 



CHAPTER VII. 



BUDS. 



These should also be selected with great care. Hund- 

 reds of planters have been sorely disappointed when their 

 trees came into bearing to see them turn out a diiferent 

 variety from what they had bought them for. Worse 

 still, sometimes they buy and pay for the choicest bud- 



