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PEACH WORM — BEARING AND PRUNING GRAPE VINES. 



PEACH WORM. 



In many of the papers at this season may be fount! 

 remedies for the peach worm. They may be called 

 standard remedies, because they appear periodically 

 year after year. There is no harm in trying them, 

 but the only remedy we believe in, and have found 

 effectual, as well as simple, is to examine each tree, 

 spring and fall, with a knife tapering to a sharp point, 

 hunt up the intruder and destroy him. If he is about 

 at all, there is no dilliculty in finding him immediate- 

 ly under the surface of the ground, his presence be- 

 ing indicated by the gum. 



Just below the surface the bark is tender, which 

 makes it the poiut of attack. In the hard bark 

 above the ground ho cannot make an entrance, and 

 to guard against him below, we have pursued the 

 plan each fall of exposing the trunk by drawing away 

 the earth around it down to where the large roots 

 begin to branch out, and leaving it exposed all win- 

 ter. The bark thus becomes hard and impenetrable. 



In the spring it should be filled up again a little 

 above the level, a peck of leached ashes being ap- 

 plied alio around each tree, according to size. This 

 application greatly promotes the thrift and growth 

 of the peach. 



By attending to these recommendations, instead of 

 being a short lived tree, having but two or three 

 crops, and then dying off, as is the case with many 

 orchards, we believe it can be made to live and bo 

 productive and profitable from ten to fifteen years at 

 least, and perhaps longer. We know of peach trees 

 in this vicinity, apparently perfectly healthy and bear- 

 ing well, twenty-five years old. To those who con- 

 sider this plan too troublesome, we only say do with- 

 out peaches and make no complaints. 



Fruit of the best quality cannot be grown without 

 care and trouble, and if it could, would not be valu- 

 ed so much as it is. The yellows in the peach is far 

 more difficult to manage, and indeed no remedy has 

 yet been found. Whenever it makes its appearance, 

 the tree should be exterminated, root and branch. — 

 PerM. Farm Jour. 



GBAPE VIHE8-BEAEING AHB PBUHING. 



The proper time for pruning is in the autumn, soon 

 after the fall of the leaf, and in this operation very 

 much depend.s, as to the success you may meet with. 

 We give herewith, from Cole's Fruit Book, some of 

 the different forms of training. 



The Cnne, or Renewal System. 

 — ^The first season one branch is 

 trained up; in the fall this is cut 

 back to 3 or 4 eyes, and the next 

 season another is trained up, and 

 the first is extended; both are then 

 laid down and trained horizontally, 

 near the surface; and from each a 

 cane is trained up, (a. a ) The next 

 season these will bear fruit, and two 

 more canes, (4, 6,) trained up to bear ^"^ "^-"^ '^'^™- 

 fruit the next season, when a, a are cut out near the 

 horizontal branch, leaving one eye, and new shoots 

 trained, and so on. Dr. W. C. Chandler, of South 

 Naticli, Mass., trains in this way, and he has sent us 

 fine habellas an inch in diameter. Some train up the 



main vine perpendicularly on a building, to a c 

 venient place, and then extend canes horizontally, i 

 renew as above. The cane system gives excell 

 fruit, as it is always on new wood ; but the yield 

 generally larger by spur or fan training. The ca 

 should be as much as two feet apart. If the vim 

 strong, the horizontal branches may be extended, 

 as to have 8 or 10 canes. 



The Spur System is the train- 

 ing up of the main stem, and of 

 spurs horizontally, cutting back 

 the spurs, annually, to 2, 3, or 4 

 eyes of the new wood, accord- 

 ing to the strength of the vine, 

 and number of the spurs. 



When the spurs have extend- 

 ed too far, cut out a part, year- 

 ly, training up new ones, thus 

 changing all the wood to new ; 

 and as the vines become old and ^^^"^^ '^^A.^ 

 unproductive, cut down part at S'^'ft^^^^ "^^^i 

 a time, and train up new ones. •" -« — "' 

 This will combine the cane and ^ ^ ' 

 spur method, and is an excel- £> ^^^ 

 lent system. 



The Fan or Tree System, or 

 other convenient modes, are 

 practiced in vineyards, and in 

 common garden culture, or in 

 training grapes in yards, by walls, 

 trees, buildings, &c. In gardens 

 or vineyards, a trellis may be 

 formed by setting posts, or stakes, 6 or 8 feet 1 

 and nailing on narrow strips of boards, or st 

 alone are sufficient, if set 15 or 20 inches apart 

 vineyards, where the vines are about 3 or 4 feet a] 

 sometimes only one stake is set to a vine, and 

 lateral or oblique branches are trained to the m 

 boring stakes. 



PUR STSTE. 



