PEACH AND THE PEAR. l6$ 



not larger than a knitting needle, In small orchards, 

 hand-pruning might do, but, generally, nature's way is 

 best. 



Question ii. Yes sir, and it is contagious. Its 

 appearance on a small twig, even, calls for heroic treat- 

 ment by a prompt amputation. Wood-ashes about the 

 crown of the tree will restore the tree, if applied 

 liberally, and every year. 



Question 12. From natural, healthy seed. The 

 early decay of present orchards is due to the germ being 

 diseased. 



Question 13. In some orchards, in some seasons, it 

 has ; but in orchards where high cultivation has given 

 vitality to the trees, the deposit of the e^g does not 

 seem as easy of accomplishment. It is always the poor 

 horse that dies of Botts. 



Question 14. No answer. 



Question 15. Sell at the nearest railroad station 

 or steamboat landing. Use the western package ; they 

 are always clean, and more pleasing to the eye of the 

 buyer on a hot morning, than fruit in a package on 

 which fowls have been roosting all winter. I tried for 

 years, during my connection with the P., W. & B. R. R., 

 to get the company to introduce this cheap package, 

 and abandon the return of empties, without success. If 

 fruit growers would adopt this package, they could 



