PEACHES, 



these means rendered larger, more beautiful, and of a 

 higher flavour, and the growth of the tree is rendered 

 more vigorous." 



"Mr. Thomas Coulter, of Bedford county, Penn- 

 sylvania, gives the following directions for cultivating 

 peach trees, which he has successfully pursued in 

 Pennsylvania and Delaware, for forty-five years. See 

 Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. vol. v. 



"The principal causes of peach trees dying while 

 young, are the planting, transplanting, and pruning 

 the same stock; which causes the stock to be open and 

 tender, and the bark of the tree very rough : this 

 roughness of the bark gives opportunities to insects 

 to lodge and breed in it ; and birds search after these 

 insects, for their support, and with their sharp bills, 

 wound the stock in many places ; from which wound 

 the sap of the tree is drawn out, which congeals, and 

 never fails to kill, or to render the tree useless, in a 

 Tew years. To prevent which, transplant your peach 

 frees, as young as possible, where you mean them to 

 stand ; if in the kernel, so much the better ; because 

 in that case there will be no check of growth, which 

 always injures peach trees. Plant peach trees six- 

 teen feet apart, both ways, except you would wish to 

 take your wagon through the orchard to carry the 

 peaches away ; in that case, give twenty-four feet dis- 

 tance to every fifth row, one way, after transplanting. 

 You may plough and harrow amongst your peaches 

 for two years, paying no regard to wounding or tear- 

 ing them, so that you do not take them up by the 

 roots. In the month of March or April, in the third 

 year after transplanting, cut them all off by the ground ; 

 plough and harrow amongst them as before, taking 

 special care not to wound or tear them in the smallest 

 degree, letting all the sprouts or scions grow, that will 

 grow ; cut none away, supposing six or more should 

 come up from the old stump ; the young scions will 



