f)i FACT NUMBER THREE. 



The same course has been pursued with strongly thriving 

 branches, or suckers, taken from any healthy peach tree, 

 and fine fruit has been thus propagated at a very rapid rate, 

 and small expense. But let it be observed, that, in all cases 

 of this kind, much of the chance of success, depends on the 

 season, the condition of the slip as to the state of the sap, &c, 

 and the care and judgment employed in the operation of plant- 

 ing, &c, for it must be remembered, that the Peach Tree is 

 one of the most delicate and difficult plants to manage that 

 belongs to our list of fruit trees ; in fact its true character and 

 true training, seem to have baffled all common place philo- 

 sophy. 



3. The sprouts springing from the deeply grounded root, 

 and forming the Peach Tree, are all held in an upright and 

 family-like position, by the body of earth which surrounds 

 them ; and although the ground in which they stand may 

 be extremely rich, and full of appropriate nourishment, — 

 and the sap very profuse, yet, being divided among so many 

 suckers, it affords to each but a moderate share of nutriment . 

 and that share may be easily regulated to suit any quality 

 of ground by increasing or diminishing the number of 

 sprouts. 



One great object in this mode of culture, is to secure, not 

 a rapid, but a very moderate, not to say, sloio growth of the 

 tree, and at the same time, a sound and durable quality of 

 timber, with a, smooth and safe bark into which the rain 

 and sleet will not penetrate, nor will the frost or post-worm 

 find a ready entrance. 



4th. But should the White Grub, in his rambles, or the 

 Black Bug, in his flights, chance to reach one or two of 

 these sprouts, or even all of them at a single visit, which in 

 fact would be a very rare occurrence, and prey upon them, 

 they would all die as a matter of course ; but then the root 

 is safe ; it has felt neither the sting of the one nor the tooth 



