76 Peach Groiving in the Vicinity of St. Joscjfh, Michigan. 



ferred), so as to be easily applied with a common paint-bnish. Give a 

 good coating at first, commencing near the top of the paper. Apply 

 as often as necessary — once in two or tliree days in cold weather, but 

 as tlie weather gets warmer, once in a week or ten days. If the grubs 

 run freely, tliey must be looked after every day, or they will soon bridge 

 across. Apply the ink in the flill (also during winter, if it should be 

 unusually warm) and very early in spring, about the last of March, 

 remembering to give one or two applications in May. to catch any of 

 the voung worms that may be hatched below, and which would imme- 

 diatel}- crawl up tlie tree. Sometimes one or two applications may be 

 necessary to catch tlie travelling vermin after tliey have eaten other 

 trees. After tliis remove the papers, as they often injure tlie trees if 

 left on during summer. If faithfully followed up the first year, you 

 will find verj' little trouble afterwards, unless, as is too often the case, 

 neighboring orchards are allowed to raise up a hoard to tiy your pa- 

 tience the next year. I would say, emphatically^ to every c»ne living 

 in a canker-worm district, czit down eveiy tree that you do not protect 

 or care for. 



PEACH GROWING IN THE ^^CINITY OF ST. JOSEPH, 



MICHIGAN. 



By J. A. DoxALDSOM, St. Joseph, Mich. 



The summer succeeding the hard winter of 1S55-6 revealed the 

 superior advantages of tliis locality for peach growing. While nearly 

 even- part of the north lost its ti-ees by that winter, St. Joseph, the sea- 

 son following, shipped a small quantity of fruit to market. Extensive 

 orchards were planted the next year, and each succeeding year thou- 

 sands of trees have been set, notwidistanding tliat nearly ever}- one 

 engaged in the business has been, for years, expressing his fears diat the 

 supply would far exceed the demand when all the trees aiTived at a 

 bearing age. But the demand of the gi'owing cities and villages on the 

 other side of the lake — where a peach tree cannot sunive a single 

 winter, except an extraordinarily mild one — has kept pace with the 

 supplv ; and prices have always been remunerative for good fruit, well 

 put up and well handled. 



The varieties planted in tlie first orchards were mostly Sen-ate Early 

 York, Cooledge's Favorite, Large Early York, George the Foui-tli, 



