PEACH AND THE PEAR. II7 



for the same peach may act differently even on adjoining 

 farms, or even fields. Study the peculiar soil that each 

 variety demands. Before you plant, decide whether you 

 will plant particularly for canning, or evaporating, or for 

 shipping, or, will you combine all .' If you have a retail 

 market near you, and Wish to retail, particularly if your 

 orchard is small, study well the demands of this market. 

 In my own orchards, of over ten thousand trees, I don't 

 think I have over six hundred trees coming in before 

 Mountain Rose ; and had I to plant them to-day I would 

 not have that many, situated as my orchards are, north 

 of Wyoming. 



In the answers to my questions sent out to some of 

 the most intelligent of our peninsula fruit-growers, will 

 be found their views on the varieties to plant in an 

 orchard of one thousand trees, and now I will give my 

 own views on this subject. 



For an orchard of one thousand trees, with a view 

 of selling to dealers in a near market, as Wilmington, 

 for instance, or of retailing the fruit in such a market, it 

 being within driving distance of me, I would plant as 

 follows : 



Yellow. White. 



Early Rivers, 10 Mountain Rose, 100 



St. John, 20 Old Mixon, 150 



Foster, 100 Moore's Favorite ICXD 



