548 MONTHLY JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURE. 



THE GREEN TWIG PEACH. 



ROOT AND OTHER GRAFTING. 



Clabksville, Va., March 1, 1847. 



Dear Sir : The Green Twig Peach tree is put in care of my worthy friend, J. H. 

 who will deliver it as you have directed. It is my humble opinion a fortune can 

 be made in propagating it, more especially if inoculated like this, permitting the 

 common Red to grow along with the Green Twig. 1 hope you will take occasion 

 to open the box and see it, for i assure you it is something rare and beautiful. I 

 found the fruit so delicious that it induced me to rear three hundred trees of this 

 kind (now beginning to bear fruit.) 



1 fear your northern^climate may not suit it as well as this, as it appears rather 

 more tender than the fed-limb peach. In the same box with the tree, I will put 

 limbs for grafting, if Mr. Colt desires it. Let me tell him how : Dig up the 

 roots of any young peach tree ; cut them in lengths of 6 or 7 inches ; split the 

 proper end oiie inch as you cut them off. Take the limbs 1 send, cut them in 

 shape of a wedge and insert them in these roots, bark to bark ; mop around the 

 insertion with a mop dipped in melted beeswax and rosin, not hot enough to in- 

 jure ; plant them I5 inches below the junction of root and graft, and 19 out of 

 20 will live. If you have young peach trees, it may be safer to graft to them. 



The twigs I send are long enough to cut into several lengths for grafts, and all 

 the ends are dipped in beeswax and rosin, to prevent the escape of sap, and 

 thereby they will be much more certain to live. 



1 have for a long time been aiming to procure the best selection of fruit in the 

 State for my own use, and take great pleasure in propagating the choicest kinds. 

 My plan is this: When the grafts grow ten or fifteen inches long, I cut off a 

 part and take from it buds and inoculate vines or trees of two or three years' 

 growth. Nothing would please me better than to get a few twigs of the Black 

 Tartarian Cherry ; I have seen some notice of it in Browne's work on Trees, and 

 have become anxious to have it. 1 find that cherries do best when grafted or 

 inoculated on our common wild cherry. Yours, sincerely, J. L. 



John S. Skinnee, Esq. 



AManval of the Principles and Practice of Road-Making, comprising the Location, Construction 

 and Improvement of Roads (Common. McAdam, Paved, Plank and Rail Roads) ; by W. M. Gillespie, 

 A. M., C. E., Professor of Civil Engineering in Union College. 



The work of which we have here given the title, has made its appearance very oppor- 

 itunely, as it was much needed for the very reasons given in the Preface : 



" The common roach of the Unitrd Slates are inferior to those of any other civilized country. 

 Their faults are tliosc of direction, of slopes, of shape, of surface, and generally of deficiency in all 

 the attributes of good roads. Some of these defects are indeed the unavoidable results of the 

 Bcantiness of capital and of labor in a new country, but ino.st of them arisi.' from an ignorance either 

 of the true principles of road-making, or of the advantages of putting these principles into prac- 

 tice. They may therefore be removed by a more general difl'usion of scientilic instruction upon 

 this subject, and to assist in bringing about this consummation is the object of the present volume. 

 In it the author has endeavored to combine, in a systematic and symmetrical form, the results of 

 an engineering experience in all parts of the United States, and of au examination of the great 

 roads of Europe, with a careful digestion of nil accessible authorities, an important portion of the 

 matter having never before appeared in English." 



We "ave an extract from it iu our last number, and have only now to reiterate what we 



have 8(1 often urged, that those are the subjects which ought to be taught in our common 



schools as practical cxemplificatioiis of the ninthematics which in some of them are taught, 



or pretended to be. How obviotisly does a thorough rcfonn iu the course of Common School 



education Ho at the bottom of ;ill rational ideas of the improvement and prosperity of the 



agricultural class ! 

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