THE VINEYARD AND ORCHARD. 103 



the " yellows," has blighted so many hopes ! I 

 honestly believe that millions of trees have been 

 sold in which this disease existed from the bud. 

 If fine peaches were bred and propagated with 

 something of the same care that is bestowed on 

 blooded stock, the results would soon be propor- 

 tionate. Gardeners abroad often give more care to 

 one tree than hundreds receive here. Because the 

 peach has grown so easily in our climate, we have 

 imposed on its good-nature beyond the limits of 

 endurance, and consequently it is not easy to get 

 sound, healthful trees that will bear year after year 

 under the best of treatment, as they did with our 

 fathers with no care at all. I should look to men 

 who had made a reputation for sending out sound, 

 healthful stock grown under their own eyes from 

 pits and wood which they know to be free from 

 disease. Do not try to save a few pennies on the 

 first cost of trees, for the probabilities are that 

 such economy will result in little more than the 

 "yellows." 



In large orchards, cultivated by horse- power, the 

 stems of the trees are usually from four to six feet 

 high ; but in the garden this length of stem is not 

 necessary, and the trees can be grown as dwarf 

 standards, with stems beginning to branch two feet 

 from the ground. A little study of the habit of 

 growth in the peach will show that, to obtain the 



