PEACH AND THE PEAR. I/S 



Question 7. Immediately before full bloom. 



Question 8. Just after corn planting and very deep, 

 and follow the round of cultivation after each corn 

 tilling. 



Question 9. Rock |, Bone Meal |, 300 to 400 

 pounds to acre, ploughed in, in spring. Hog pen 

 manure as a winter dressing around trees, not too close 

 to body. 



Question 10. Late in the winter, or very early in 

 spring, so that the cut may heal speedily. 



Question 11. There seems to be, don't know cause, 

 best remedy attention and cultivation. If trees are kept 

 clean for five or six years, worms will, perhaps, do little 

 damage. If not, worm carefully in July or August, by 

 hand. For young trees, take earth away in July or 

 August, and carefully clean the body to the roots, with 

 cloth. 



Question 12. Natural. 



Question 13. Not to occasion any alarm. 



Question 14. Yes, mostly on springy land. 



Question 15. No answer. 



ANSWERS RECEIVED FROM GROWER, NO. 12. 



Question i. Mountain Rose, Foster, Reeves, 

 Moore's Favorite, Old Mixon, Stump, Crawford Late, 

 Variegated Free, Prize, Smock. 



