FRUIT GROWING 21 



Plant good yearling almond trees between the rows, cutting back 

 the peaches to give the almonds plenty of light and getting a couple 

 of good crops of large peaches on the cut-back trees. Then use 

 water enough to keep both lines growing well. In planting, furrow 

 out well and run a subsoiler along the line of the new rows so as to 

 plant in root-free ground, otherwise the young trees will be hard to 

 start. 



Apricot on Peach Roots. 



Can an apricot be grafted to a peach? Will it make a good union 

 and fruit well? 



It surely can be: on a good peach soil there is probably no better 

 root for the apricot. We have seen such trees over 40 years old still 

 in good condition. This refers to trees worked over young. If you 

 refer to grafting over old peach trees that is a more difficult matter, 

 for old peach bark is contrary and extra care is required in grafting. 



Almond on Peach. 



Can almonds be grafted on peach trees ten years old, in good shape, 

 roots and trunks all right, with success so they will stick, grow a)nd 

 produce crops later? 



Cut off the main branches above the forks and put in side-grafts 

 without splitting the limb-ends, waxing extra well, for the peach 

 bark shrinks and dies back badly if not covered. If you do this, let 

 good shoots grow from all stubs on which the grafts do not take 

 and bud into them near their bases in June. The objection is that 

 amputations do not easily bark over and unless you watch and keep 

 the ends painted the old wood will begin to decay and you may have 

 a sad lot of rotten trunks below the thrifty almond branches, and this 

 does not make for longevity. 



Moving Yearling Peach Trees. 



Should I transplant peach trees next spring that were planted last 

 spring, or should I get new ones? 



Cut off about two-thirds of the tops and move them this winter. 

 They will endure the transplanting all right. But if they have been 

 stunted by dryness or disease or injury, new trees would be more 

 profitable. 



Thinning Peach Growth in Summer. 



// five-year-old peach trees make a dense growth of wood would 

 it be advisable to thin this groTvth to keep it from smothering the fruit 

 buds for the following year? 



It is sometimes desirable to thin as you propose, not because 

 it smothers fruit buds, but because it may make interior snoots stronger 

 and more likely to bear good fruit. It should be done as soon as you 



