

CHAPTER III. 



THE PEACH, AND THE NECTARINE. 



SECTION I. 



CULTIVATION, &C. 



Choice of a tree. The best age at which 

 to plant out the peach in an orchard, is one 

 year from the bud and two years from the 

 seed. Nothing is gained by purchasing trees 

 older than this, unless they have been trans- 

 planted once or t \vice before. Select a stocky, 

 rather low branching, vigorous looking tree, 

 free from gummy exudations in every part. 

 This gummy matter will appear, if anywhere, 

 on the roots, about the collar, on the sides and 

 in the forks of the limbs. The insects, doing 

 this mischief, live but a single year and are 

 easily destroyed. Trees otherwise satisfacto- 

 ry ought not, therefore, to be rejected on this 



