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line following the contour of the hills — above 

 this line we have a crop of fruit while below it 

 we have a failure. If the orchard rows are 

 planted so that they extend up and down the 

 hill and consist of different varieties, we can 

 sometimes note a difference in the hardiness be- 

 tween two sorts. I recall that one year the 

 fruit on our Greensborough peach trees ex- 

 tended three trees lower down the hillside than 

 any other kind, thereby proving the opinion 

 that we have long held that this variety was 

 one of the hardiest sorts. 



Nurserymen usually offer the planter two 

 sorts of peach trees, "yearlings" and "June 

 buds." These are produced by two different 

 systems of propagation. Both are good if used 

 in their rightful localities. 



Ordinarily the nurseryman grows his peach 

 trees by planting the seed very early in the 

 spring. By July or August the little trees are 

 large enough to bud. The buds inserted at this 

 time remain dormant until the following spring 

 when the seedling top is cut off and growth 

 forced through the inserted bud. At the end of 

 the summer the bud has produced a tree vary- 

 ing from two to six or seven feet in height. 

 These trees are called yearlings and constitute 

 the bulk of the peach stock sold in the North. 



June buds are produced in the same way ex- 

 cept that the buds are inserted in June and the 



