52 FACT NUMBER THREE. 



of the surrounding country, and do well in almost any cli- 

 mate, provided the soil be dry, warm, and quick. 



2nd. The training of the Peach Tree in a single stem r 

 &c. The evils arising from this mode of culture, may be 

 all easily and effectually remedied by substituting the follow- 

 ing course of cultivation, viz. 



1. In planting the young trees in the orchard, say about 

 one year after the ingraft, care must be taken, in the first 

 place, to set them some ten or twelve feet apart; this 

 distance will admit a free team passage about the orchard. 

 Then, in the next place, further care must be taken to plant 

 the roots of each seedling full eight inches lower in the 

 earth than the depth at which it stood in the nursery. This 

 distance down places the roots quite out of the reach of the 

 bug and the worm, and gives them a fair hold upon the 

 earth and the nutriment which it furnishes. Then, if it 

 should so happen that the worm or other insect, bark the 

 tree and bore it, and even kill it at the ground, new shoots 

 will immediately spring up from the safely bedded root, 

 strong and full of health, and thus keep the orchard stock 

 in good condition. 



2. In the spring, next following the planting of the orch- 

 ard, each tree must be cut off at the ground. Then, from 

 the root or stump thus left in the earth, fresh sprouts will 

 soon shoot up, as in the subjoined cut, and these are to form 

 the future peach tree. 



The thrifty stems severed from the stump, may, if taken 

 off at the swell of the leaf bud, be separated into slips of 

 about ten or twelve inches in length, and planted some eight 



