50 PEACH CULTURE. 



growing is a recent enterprise, and there has not been 

 time to raise up and instruct men for this special depart- 

 ment. It is believed that in New Jersey alone, where 

 peaches have long been a staple, can intelligent and skill- 

 ful budders be found in sufficient numbers to bud large 

 nurseries in proper season. We know that in Delaware, 

 where peach growing has been prosecuted with great 

 energy and success for the last twenty-five years, bud- 

 ders are still imported from New Jersey, and their skill 

 and speed are of the first order. 



They are usually paid by the thousand, and at the rate 

 of two dollars and fifty cents or three dollars, and board. 

 This does not include auxiliary help, which is an addi- 

 tional charge of about equal amount. 



TIES. 



These are made of common bass-wood matting, such as 

 usually comes around furniture and other articles, and the 

 planter or nurseryman can often procure all he wants, 

 second-hand, at the stores for a trifle, and this does very 

 well. If not, he can get it new at any of the seed or agri- 

 cultural stores in the cities or large towns for a small sum. 

 When received, it should be cut into strands about a foot 

 long, and ripped into pieces about half an inch wide. It 

 should be then tied, with a few pieces of the same, into 

 hanks or bundles of one, two, three, four, or five hundred 

 strands, as the tyer may desire. 



BUDS. 



The buds, as before stated, are procured from budded 

 nurseries or young orchards. In the former, the young 

 trees are always full of thrifty, vigorous laterals, and 

 from these the buds are taken. The best size for these 

 twigs is the thickness of a full-sized goose-quill. 



