Report on Peach Trees. 



The Peach-trees, thirty in number which we enter in competition 

 for the premium offered by your society, form part of an orchard of 

 nearly four-hundred peach trees, and seventy-five apple trees, set out 

 in the spring of 1900. 



The soil is a moderately dry loam of fair natural fertility to a 

 depth of from six to eight inches, beneath which there is a yellow 

 soil for a depth of two or more feet, followed by a sub-soil more or 

 less retaintive. Shally stone and gravel with small cobble stones 

 are more or less mixed with the soil. This field is of moderate 

 elevation, sloping west, south-west, and previous to the fall of 1899, 

 when it was plowed, it had for many years been used as a pasture. 

 The field was spaced so that the apple trees would stand 33x36 feet 

 apart, and the peach trees 11x18 feet apart between the apple trees. 



CHART OF DISTANCE AND ORDER OF SETTING. 



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Apple trees, 33x36. Peach trees, 1 1x18 feet apart. 



Furrows were made 18 feet apart, the double team and large size 

 plow going back and forth several times, loosening and removing the 

 soil, making it much easier digging the holes to receive the trees. 

 These holes when completed were three or more feet in diameter 

 and twelve or figteen inches deep, with the soil loosened to a similar 

 depth but allowed to remain in the hole. The peach trees set were 

 one year old, from the bud and of our own raising. The stocks on 

 which these trees had been budded, were grown from selected pits, 

 from healthy Northern seedlings that had proved remarkably hardy 

 in wood and bud; vigorous, long-lived seedlings. 



These "home-grown" trees, both root and branch, having been 

 grown under favorable conditions, were certainly remarkably, fine 

 specimens of one-year old trees; handsome branching tops and a 



