AXD ITS DISEASE. 71' 



two or three years, and this would more likely be 

 the case if the trimming should be done in the 

 spring or summer at the full circulation and flow 

 of the sap. Keally the tree wants but little trim- 

 ming after the head is formed. This is to be regu- 

 lated according to taste and convenience. My prac- 

 tice has been to head my trees leaving the body 

 five to six feet in length, so as to cultivate with 

 freedom and ease with small horses or mules, well 

 up to the tree, thus saving much labor and afford- 

 ing a free circulation of air and a full view through 

 an orchard of considerable size. Low heading makes 

 close and neat cultivation rather difficult and more 

 expensive, and what is worse than all liable to be 

 neglected. The peach grower looking to success- 

 which is found alone in the health of his trees must 

 be a bold operator. On the first symptoms of dis- 

 ease if only in a twig or a fruit spur, it must be 

 eradicated, root body and branch, and as the barren 

 fig tree cast into the fire, renewing its place by first 

 applying to the soil in which it grew the necessary 

 curative manures in sufficient quantity for a healthy 

 reception for a new tree at the proper season for 

 planting. 



Shall we longer as advised by the old school of 

 vegetable Philosophers still wait the old cycle of 

 time 20 years to renew a removed apple or peach 

 tree, or replant a new orchard on the ground fol- 

 lowing the removal of the old? I am prepared to 

 answer no ; with the light bafore us wa will treat 



