FACT NUMBER THREE. DO 



of the other : and it will soon send up new and healthy 

 shoots, — an entire health?/ and graceful Peach Tree. 



Experience has proved all this, and it has also proved, 

 that, in such cases, an excess of shoots will often spring up, 

 and make a too minute division of the sap, thereby endan- 

 gering- the health of the whole family of sprouts ; therefore, 

 these sprouts must be trimmed out and the number gradu- 

 ated to the condition of the soil. In this trimming howev- 

 er, some thought must be had as to the nature and state of 

 the ground, its location, pitch, &c. In 'poor land, some 

 three or four shoots are enough, and six or eight in rich 

 soil. Then, as to the relative position and promise of the 

 plants, — division is one object, the preservation of the largest 

 and most thrifty, is another, and both, and all demand the 

 exercise of judgment. But. let it be borne in mind, that this 

 surplusage of shoots, let them come whence and when they 

 may, must be removed only at early trimming time. 



These thrifty sprouts, whether from the root of the nursery 

 tree, or from one killed by the grub, will begin to bear fruit 

 the second or third year ; and by the sixth or seventh year, 

 they become extremely prolific and elegant. In this way, 

 the stock of peach trees may be preserved in a perfectly 

 healthy state, secure from all ordinary casualties, the late 

 Spring frosts excepted, for many years ; ay, for whole gene- 

 rations, and rarely show the symptoms of the yellows, as 

 the sickly foliage is generally designated, or the decay of a 

 root or a stem. 



It may here be observed that, in order to promote the pu- 

 rity of the jieach orchard, and preserve the beauty and 

 quantity of the fruit, the hog should be allowed the free 

 range of the whole ground, from early grass time up to the 

 ripening of the choice peach: and when he is restrained 

 from this range, all exposures of the roots of trees, to the rav- 

 ages of insects, &a, should be carefully covered up, and the 



