PEACH. 



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Kiirly White Nutnifij . . 



Eiirly AiiiH- 



Early Tiilutson . . . . 

 Early Reil Uareripe . . 



Early York 



Grcissc MipiKinne . . 

 While Ini|it.'nal . . . . 

 Red-cheek Malacatoii . . 



Malta 



Columbia 



President 



Early N'ewiiigton . . . 



Oldinixon 



Old Newiiigton . . . . 

 Lemon Cliiinrstone, Pineap- 

 ple, or Kennedy's . . 

 Heath 



small 



middling 



large 



similar 



largo 



larjfe 



large 



large 



largie 



large 



middling 



large 



large 



large 

 large 



Kipe. 

 July 

 August 

 August 



August 



August 



late, August 



August 



September 



September 



August 



September 



September 



September 

 late, September 



Remarks 



slender growth, 

 slender growth, 

 very productive, excellent. 



very 

 very 

 very 

 very 

 very 

 very 

 very 

 very 

 very 



productive, 

 productive, 

 jiroductive, 

 productive, 

 productive, 

 productive, 

 productive, 

 productive, 

 productive, 



excellent. 



excellent. 



excellent. 



splendid. 



good. 



good. 



good. 



excellent. 



excellent. 



very productive, excellent, 

 very productive, excellent. 



" The early white nutmeg is a 

 peach of very small size, and a very 

 poor bearer ; and a cultivator may 

 count himself fortunate if he gets a 

 quart of peaches from a full-grown 

 tree. It ripens a week or more after 

 our wheat harvests, and is valuable 

 only for its early maturity. The 

 early Anne is later, but much larger 

 and a much better bearer ; and were 

 it not for its very slow growth, would 

 be valuable. 



" The peach appears to vary more 

 in quality from the effect of climate 

 than other fruits. Culture greatly 

 afiects the quality ; thus, the Heath 

 clingstone, under favourable circum- 

 stances, is an excellent fruit ; but if 

 the branches are permitted to bear 

 full, the fruit is small and of little 

 value. 



" Peach and nectarine trees are 

 liable to destruction from two causes, 

 the ivorm, and Ihe ycUmi's. The pres- 

 ence of the worm is readily detected 

 by the gum, mixed with excrementi- 

 tious matter, oozing from the trunk, 

 at the surface of the ground. The 

 best, and probably the only effectual 

 remedy is, to scrape the earth from 

 about the tree, and then, with a knife, 

 to follow the holes made by the worm 

 to their termination, and destroy it. 

 As this insect merely confines itself 

 to the bark, its destruction is very 

 easy. It rarely occurs that trees are 

 completely destroyed by this insect, 

 except they be small : death can only 

 take place when the bark is eaten 

 round the tree. Timely care will 

 prevent this ; the evil, in fact, is only 

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to be dreaded by negligent cultiva- 

 tors." 



For an account of the yellows, see 

 Yelioirs. 



"I'he shortness of life in the peach- 

 tree, and the consequent difficulty of 

 its culture in some places, appear to 

 be chiefly owing to this disease. In 

 Western New-Vorkit is comparative- 

 ly unknown, and great care should be 

 used by cultivators that it be not in- 

 troduced by importations. 



" The peach-tree, though generally 

 supposed to be very short-lived, when 

 not destroyed by unnatural causes, 

 will continue to flourish and bear for 

 many years. Trees twenty years old 

 and upward are frequently seen. 



" The curled leaf, which frequently 

 appears on peach-trees early in sum- 

 mer, is occasioned by frost or chilly 

 weather. These leaves soon drop, and 

 the tree assumes a healthy appear- 

 ance. This would not be worth no- 

 ticing, except that it sometimes oc- 

 casions unnecessary alarm. 



" The growth of some varieties is 

 retarded ()y mildew on the young 

 shoots. It appears to be exclusively 

 conlined to those having serrated, 

 glandless leaves, as the early white 

 nutmeg, early Ann, and some of the 

 earlier varieties of the red rareripe. 

 It is not a very serious evil ; and the 

 best remedy appears to be good soil 

 and good culture to stimulate the 

 growth. All yellow-fleshed varieties 

 appear to be entirely free from it." 



For the curculio, see Plum. 



PEACH BORER. See Borers. 



PEACOCK. Pavo cristatus. The 



