PEACH 



1233 



from October to 

 imd cross-check- 

 ilowing this laud 

 it for three and 

 1 pounds of low- 

 r till' rotten and 

 iri'i'^ itri- allowed 

 iirhlinlal to the 





tempted. After the trrts iMi-inni- so hirge as 

 to drive out the cotton, one plowing is given in winter, 

 then anything from fairly good culture to none at all 

 the rest of each season. Such a system results in many 

 "scrub orchards," that are not very profitable after six 



Specialists, who devote almost their entire time to the 

 Peach business, plant their trees mostly 16 x 16 or IS x 18 

 feet and give them entire use of the land. The under- 

 signed, being a nither close pruner, has about 150,000 

 trees planted i:!xl.l feet and about 175,000 planted 15 

 X 15 feet. 



.\11 land is pki\\iil ditj) and sometimes subsoiled 

 before phintiiig \oun„' oichards are given frequent 

 and thorough tiUagi up tii mid season when 2 or 3 

 rows of cow-peas in diillfd in at li ist 4 feitanaj from 

 the rows of tri i s tlnsL and the trees are cultl^ ated 



I n almost full 



pos 



.session of tli. ii i i i i I i i m 1 ir both the land 

 and trees tu 1. i iimn In the fall 



when peas 111! i il fornext -Near s 



seed, after wK: i n be turned in to 



pasture for a I nil li in imin lies a fine ^^lnter 

 cover, and is I III I i I n i in t |l wing m Februar\ 



or March, will 1 iliii I _ins and at propti 



time the orcliar I 1 _iiii III w peas, across the 

 former direction 1 th i « Ihni jeirs of this usii 

 ally builds up a p( rfnt on bird without the aid of an\ 

 other fertilizers, except possibly a veij little about the 

 trees at time of planting to gi\e them a start 



Low-headed trees are the lule the trunks seldom 



a fi 



a rule, the close cutting-back at time of planting, 

 I a general shortening-in of the leading branches for 

 first 2 or ;! years, is about all the pruning given, 

 n in the best orchards. Our own plan is to shorten- 

 every year much of the past season's growth, and 

 m the central head often cut back 2 or 3 seasons' 

 wth: but under no circumstances are any of the 



good side shoots cut out that force tbemselves on all 

 the main stems when the top is properly headed back. 

 Figs. 1678, 1679. These little side branches have given 

 the writer several full crops of fruit, when without them 

 there has been faihire. 



Soil ami rlimnii. Pin..,' Hi,, m iv l.rii.-lit.-st of color on 

 all Pea.hr. in 1] . -.. ,11 , , lilhs ,,t tin- soil ami the 

 long, hot Miliili . I . inn -s ami 



section of Almru.i, lhnu;,li tin ,^alnn \aric- 

 ties are not as juicy or luscious as when 

 grown further North. The writer's obser- 

 vation leads him to believe that there is 

 more water and l ess of solid matter in the 

 Peach the further one goes N orth with its 

 production, and white one can eat more of 

 the northern Peaches ripe from the tree it 

 takes the southern-grown Peach to put fat 



on one's ribs. r'ninu'lln [.,i ^1 l, n ■, , ,n-- , 



besides very hn.i ' , ■ i ,, i ' , i n 



landowners, nori I i mn! 



in corporations li- . i .,i, ,,.;,.,! 



Peaches nil tin ■ :, -..uih. im,.,i l.u>;i_h 



inGeoi-Lii n.ii ml west of Macon, 



within II , . I , iiiilns. 



The 



i-tion with cotton 

 ly from 10 to 100 

 he "straight-out 



plantation. ,. il i 



acres in extent, wli 

 Peach farm " seldom 



in frtiit, more of them having from 100 to 

 200 acres, while orchards all the way from 

 .'iOO to nearly 3,000 acres in extent are no 

 uncommon sight. Samuel H. Rumph, at 

 Marshallville, Georgia, has more than 1,000 

 acres superbly cultivated in orchard; the 

 writer's orchard at Fort \':ill"^-, Knoviria. 



has considerably more tlim, ,,1, , i,, 1673. Fn 



fruit trees, 335,000 of hIh ' 1 - n ^^'t^ 



from an outlook on tin ■ i.l- „i'thl(i 



house. Rows of trees 1'. ' n . 1 ili ^^^ | 



stretching away in all li a iwecn. 



powerful impression of ti 1 I m i 



industry, which turns oir in. ar-lnails 



Peaches in the 6 or 7 wn.l,. ■'( 1 liii-\ |ii.-kiii^' scasi 

 and yet has not one-half its jilaiiteil trees in really f 

 fruitage. 



Growth usually ceases early in August, and the tri 

 shed their leaves the last of September, a month 01 



