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Cultivation of the Peach. — The Potatoe Failure, <^c. Vol. XI. 



For the Farmers' Cabinet. 

 Cultivation of the Peach. 



Probably it is not saying too much to 

 assert that the peach flourishes as well, if 

 not better, in this country, than in any other 

 part of the world. And yet the tree is sub- 

 ject to diseases and the ravages of insects, 

 which shorten its life. The peach worm 

 generally attacks the tree near the roots, the 

 first or second year after being taken from 

 the nursery. The usual method of managing 

 is to examine the trees and cut out the worms 

 with a sharp knife; but this is a tedious pro- 

 cess, particularly for those who cultivate 

 large orchards of one hundred acres or more. 



A better method of managing is to pre- 

 vent the worm from ever getting at the 

 trees. This is easily accomplished by put- 

 ting around each tree, when the orchard is 

 planted out, three quarts of fine charcoal 

 dnst, and the same quantity of slaked lime. 

 Mix the two articles together, and place in 

 contact with the tree in the form of an ant- 

 hill. Where. wood ashes are more easily 

 obtained, four quarts placed around the tree 

 in the same manner will answer the purpose. 

 Four quarts of poudrette will also answer a 

 like good purpose. 



Peach trees are sometimes attacked with 

 a disease called the yellows. Our opinion 

 is, that if trees are propagated from healthy 

 stocks — if kept free from worms, and in all 

 other respects properly cultivated, they will 

 escape the yellows. 



If, however, any trees are attacked, the 

 only method of arresting the disease in the 

 orchard, is to dig up by the roots all diseased 

 trees, and burn them at once. One of the 

 greatest faults in the general cultivation of 

 the peach, is that most growers permit the 

 trees to exhaust themselves, by letting all 

 the fruit remain on the trees when one-half, 

 and sometimes two-thirds of the crop should 

 be picked, or shaken, or raked off, when the 

 fruit is about one-quarter grown. The re- 

 maining fruit will grow to a larger size — 

 ripen better, and command more money in 

 market, than when the whole crop is suffer- 

 ed to remain on the trees. 



An orchard treated as above, will produce 

 good crops for twenty years, instead of only 

 four to seven years, which is the longest pe- 

 riod trees will continue in bearing with or- 

 dinary culture. 



Some of the old varieties of the peach 

 appear to be running out — this, without a 

 doubt, is owing in many cases to propagat- 

 ing from old and unhealthy trees. Fortu- 

 nately for the lovers of this delicious fruit, 

 ^many new varieties have been brought out, 



vyhich for size, beauty, flavour and produc- 

 tiveness, surpass the best of the old varieties. 



The Milk, of Maryland, is a larger and 

 finer fruit than the old Morris White — the 

 flesh of the former is white to the stone. 

 Crawford's Early Malacaton, ripe last of 

 August; Crawford's Late Malacaton, ripe 

 last of September; John's Malacaton, ripe 

 middle of September; tlaston's Malacatoii, 

 ripe last of September, are all superb fruits 

 that cannot be excelled. Scott's Nonpareil, 

 is a similar fruit to the four Malacaton's 

 last mentioned, and is a September variety. 

 Temple's Late Free, ripe the middle of Oc- 

 tober, is the finest late variety within our 

 knowledge. George the Fourth, and La 

 Grange, are also valuable new varieties. 

 Red Rareripe, Yellow Rareripe, Ward''s 

 Late Free, Smock's Late Free, Fool's Late 

 Free, Early York, Troth's Early Red and 

 Early Ami, are among the best old varie- 

 ties. The above named are all freestones. 

 The following are clingstones, and valuable 

 for ripening late in the season, Lemon Cling, 

 Oldmixon Cling, Late Heath Cling, Rod- 

 man's Cling, Tippecanoe, and Algiers 

 Winter. 



We state for the information of new be- 

 ginners, that our old and experienced peach 

 growers always plant out trees in the spring 

 — in no case will they plant in the fall — ex- 

 perience has taught them that trees planted 

 in the fall, do not come into bearing so soon 

 by two or three years, as those planted in 

 the spring, and the trees never do as well. 



B, G. BOSWELL, 



Nurseryman and Fruit Grower, 

 No. 230 Pine street, Philadelphia. 



The Potatoe Failure— Non-liability of a 

 Tenant to pay Rent. 



An important case — Macdonald v. Wilkie 

 — came before the Justice of Peace Court at 

 Dundee, on Monday week, which excited 

 considerable interest, upwards of fifty others 

 being contingent on the decision to be given 

 in this one. The principal facts involved in 

 the case are as follows: — Mr. Macdonald is 

 the principal tenant of the Forthill of Bal- 

 gillo; and he, as well as many other farm- 

 ers throughout a great portion of Forfar- 

 shire — and who joined issue in the trial — 

 has been in the practice of sub-letting de- 

 tached portions of his farm to parties resid- 

 ing in the neighbourhood, for the purpose of 

 growing potatoes. It seemed that the pur- 

 ser ploughed the ground and supplied the 

 manure, and that the sub-tenants afforded 

 the seed, and attended to the cleaning and 

 culture afterwards. In consequence of the 

 failure of the crop, the sub-tenants this year 



