PEACH. 331 



A good sound healthy tree, planted and cultivated upon 

 correbt principles, may be justly considered as invulnerable 

 to the attacks of insects and reptiles, as any species of 

 healthy animal creature in existence. 



As I have been more familiar with the cultivation of 

 vegetables than fruits, I would state further my views 

 relative to the Cabbage tribe. On New- York Island in the 

 vicinity of the City, it is customary with gardeners to cut 

 their Cabbages gradually as they are required for market, 

 and often to leave their roots standing ; these bj some are 

 ploughed under; where they not only feed, but generate 

 their peculiar species of insects. Some gardeners take 

 their roots and leaves to the cattle yard or dung heap, and 

 return them back to the garden the ensuing season in the 

 shape of manure. As a consequence of such practice, good 

 Cabbages are very seldom obtained, even after a routine of 

 other crops, for two or three years. 



With a view to illustrate the evil of deep planting, I 

 would observe furrier, that when Cabbage plants a*e 

 transplanted in proper seasons and on good fresh soil, they 

 generally prove uniformly good; whereas if it should 

 happen, as it sometimes does, for want of suitable weather, 

 that the plants cannot be transplanted until they get crooked 

 and overgrown, so as to require deep planting to support 

 them in the soil, such plants, like diseased Peach trees, 

 decay first in the bark, between earth and air, and then from 

 being deprived of a natural circulation of the vegetable 

 juices, die, and discharge their putrid matter in the earth, 

 to the destruction of such other plants as may be inserted 

 in their stead. I have frequently known a land of Cabbage 

 plants filled up half a dozen times, and the crop at last 

 scarcely worth gathering, whereas could the plants have 

 been set out while dwarfish, and inserted their proper depth 

 in the ground, the cultivator would have been rewarded a 

 hundred fold. 



I dislike tautology, but cannot avoid repeating my humble 

 opinion, that deep planting and injudicious culture are the 

 causes of most diseases and failures of fruit trees ; and in 

 this way I account for Peaches being less plentiful 



