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beein to swell, spray the trees with a solution coii- 

 tainiug 1 puuiiil of copper sulfate to 25 gallons of 

 water. (.!) As soon as the fruit-buds begin to swell, 

 spray the trees with Bordeaux mixture or copper car- 

 bonate. Follow this by another spraying before the 

 buds open. (4) As soon as the fruit .shall have reached 

 full size, make a third application. This may be fol- 

 lowed by two or three applications at intervals of five or 

 seven days during the ripening period. It will proba- 

 bly not be often necessary to make more than one late 

 application. Thorough thinning of the fruit is a good 

 preventive of the spread of the rot. . 



There are no up-to-date Amei-ican books on the Peach. 

 Three works have been published: Fulton's "Peach 



Culture,"1870, newediti..n. iss't: R„n,-,--v "The 

 and Diseases of the I'l ■ ^i ! I 1 1 ■ i.m -. I';i 

 Willcox's "Peach CuIum i: :,i .i.i, \. .1 

 There are several exccll' 111 ' ; . , , i : iiUiHi i, 

 on the Peach. See als,., I i.'- >-:ii1h in .\|, 

 Peach Culturist," and Bhu-k's "Ciiltivatioii of tli 

 and the Pear on the Delaware and Chesapeake 

 sula." L.. 



Peach Culturr \s the South (Pis;. ir.TTi- 

 have been abundiint in the s<mthern states ^ill<■^■ i 

 eai-liest settlement, llie so ealled Spani^li \:iri. 

 ing first distribute.! I.v tlie earlv settlers in IImi 

 to this day, all tlmnigii the South Atlantir si.ii. ■ 

 "Spanish Blood." or "Tinsley" Peach, is spi.k. 

 one of the choice fruits of the earth. From time 

 all the improved varieties were scattered iln-e 

 South by the more progressive horticulturists a 

 serymen, and thes,. an.l their serdlinu's wn,. al 



style of shipping p.ackag 

 fruit placed between Uiyei 

 etc., and sent by express 

 about the same returns. " 



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!iii<l a suflieicnt quantity of ice, with strong caster wheel- 

 under them so they could be trundled in and out of freight 

 cars, were utilized to bring Peaches north by Savanmil 

 and Charleston steamers ; and by re-icing on the steamer^ 

 much of the early fruit came through in good order am 

 sold at such satisfactory prices as to encourage thi 



senilin^' "f tlie lai-tre midsummer Peaches to market in 

 ilie saiiM' \va\. an. I tli.' planting of moderate sized or- 

 .hai.ls an. I tin' lurtli. r experimenting with seedlings 

 and vaiietii's li.st snit.'.l to long shipments. 



The perfection of tlie refrigerator car for fruit trans- 

 portation, improved machinery for the cheap manutae- 

 ture of ice, the consolidation of various small railway 

 lines into great through routes of transportation, and a 

 full appreciation by their managers of the importance 

 of a successful Peach industry, and last but not least, 

 the originating of the Elberta Peach by Mr. Rumpli, 

 were the final factors in rapidly developing the great 

 commercial Peach industry in Georgia, and its smaller 

 counterparts in S. C Ala., Miss., Ark. and Texas. 



The year 1889 saw the first large Peach crop success- 

 fully harvested and marketed. Profits were large, and 

 being reported in the press many times greater than they 

 real I V were, stimulated much planting by those entirely 

 niifaniiliar with fruit culture, and with no special love 

 l..r ii except the money that might be made out of it. 

 ('Iiea|. lands and the abundance of good, low-priced 

 labor were encouragements to extensive plantings. In 

 nearly every state of the South, land in vast tracts 

 suitatile for Peach culture may be had at from $:i to 

 $10 per acre, and labor from sun to sun at from 40 to (10 



states, is really the Peach country of the South 

 Valley and Marshallville, the great Peach 

 Georgia, though on tablehinds about two hui 



of fertility from tl 



started and a reas. 



A maiority of tin 



as well, plant secoi 



ation a century or mere, anil 

 worn and poor, down deep in 

 ng the C or 8 inches ..f san.ly. 

 . there must be a vast amount 

 Peaeh trees grow when once 

 ini.iiini i.f culture is given. 

 rdisis. who are cotton-planters 

 1 third class yearling trees, or 



