l88 THE CULTIVATION OF THE 



also the mycelium, which produces yellows (when 

 admitted by some defect) may contract capillaries with- 

 out contact. (See my essay.) 



Question 12. I should prefer seed from Carolina, 

 (Native,) or the best specimens of budded fruit as alter- 

 native. 



Question 13. It has, perhaps, both directly and 

 indirectly, giving access to mycelium, and predisposing 

 the tree to be vulnerable in every part. (The split 

 quince tree illustrates this.) 



Question 14. The curled leaf sometimes results 

 from frost ; in its embryo it is thus destroyed. 



Question 15. Uniform size and quality in each 

 basket, separating XX from X and prime from culls. 

 In your opinion is lime as usually used in Delaware in 

 agriculture, useful or detrimental to the peach tree, and 

 your reasons for your opinion } I cannot imagine the 

 purchase of lime as a manure, nor deprecate its presence 

 in the culture of any plant. Lime is applied to chalk 

 soils with apparent good effect, and I have seldom, (if 

 ever,) analyzed a soil which contained less than 200 to 

 300 bushels per acre, (though never applied !) We NOW 

 prefer to use manures which crops remove and cannot 

 be available naturally, if relatively deficient. 



