FACT NUMBER THREE. 47 



THE PEACH TREE. 



Section II. 

 REMEDIES FOR THE PEACH TREE, &c. 



The remedies for the diseases of the Peach Tree, and 

 tiie evils which generally befall its fruit, here submitted to 

 the public, may not all, indeed, prove the very best under the 

 sun, nor may they all prove to have attained their highest 

 degree of perfection, or the most advantageous mode of ap- 

 plication. Yet we are free to say they are the best and most 

 perfect, in all respects, which patient observation and long 

 experience, have yet been able to suggest. 



It may well be expected, nay, it is confidently hoped, that 

 future experiments, (and here we take the freedom, of saying 

 they are daily and even hourly progressing,) may yet point 

 out important improvements, in some of them at least, and 

 in the mode of applying them, and in the end, open the way 

 to a more extended and more accurate knowledge of the 

 culture not only of this tree, but of our whole stock of fruit 

 trees. 



In almost every department of agriculture, our whole 

 country is in a state of comparative infancy ; and it must 

 remain so .to a great extent, until we become content to cul- 

 tivate less space, and to exert in the premises more practical 

 science and experimental knowledge. 



In this respect, something of the proper principle begins 

 to appear about our large towns and cities, where, as the 



