PEACH AND THE PEAR. 315 



OCTOBER. 



Attend to your housed fruit and the shipping of it. 

 Plant peach pits. Continue gathering fruit and housing 

 pears and apples, etc. You may top dress orchards. 

 Prepare ground for young orchards. 



NOVEMBER. 



Plant your young orchards, and don't begin later 

 than the end of the first week. Heel in all stock you 

 can't plant. Make cuttings for quinces, etc., and put 

 them away in moist moss, or heel them in the ground. 

 Attend to your housed fruit and the shipping of it. 



DECEMBER. 



Complete all November work. Cut grafts and put 

 them away. Winter-mulch trees. Put away all tools, 

 etc. Attend to housed fruit and the shipping of it. 



Read over January directions. 



