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and then transplant in the spring, in nice rows, with a plenty of 

 room. Give them thorough cultivation, and either bud in the fall, 

 or graft the next spring, but make only one tree from one seed. 

 Allow no root-grafting. Give care, and you will have an orchard 

 your great-grandchildren will brag about. 



PLANTING PEACH TREES. 



Mr. G. C. Gabert, New Salem, West Virginia. — Is it best to 

 plant peach trees in the fall or spring, and is a locality facing west 

 and south preferable to one facing north? 



Mr. N. C. Meeker. — I have had the best success in spring plant- 

 ing. One year's start can be had by cutting them down even to a 

 stump, that a new head may be formed. It is almost impossible 

 to get a growth good for anything out of old branches. One-third 

 of the growth should be cut back for at least three years afterward, 

 to make the tree send out fine bearing-wood low down; otherwise 

 the fruit will come on the extremities of the branches, which are 

 likely to be frost-bitten. The cutting-back should be done early 

 in the spring, so that the fruit- wood can harden well by September. 

 Cultivation should be constant through the summer months, but 

 it should cease in July, to prevent a fall growth, which is almost 

 certain to winter-ldll. It should be borne in mind that all fruit 

 has its foundation laid the year before, and that no tardy fall or 

 spring cultivation will do the least good, but on the contrary will 

 be a positive iujuiy. As to situation, the peach is well known to 

 love the sun, and that the warmest location is to the southwest 

 But one thing is most important; this is an elevated situation. The 

 higher the ground for a peach orchard, the better. It is true, the 

 fruit is sometimes blasted in high ground by an east wind, but 

 three times out of five there will be peaches on high ground, when 

 there will be none in valleys. 



umproved varieties of wheat. 



Mr. S. Edwards Todd. — Among the numerous varieties of white 

 winter wheat which are now in successful cultivation, in this lati- 

 tude, we may mention three which stand pre-eminently above all 

 others in point of prolificacy, earliness, stifl!hess of straw, and 

 certain other good qualities which characterize desirable varie- 

 ties of this kind of grain. The varieties alluded to are the "Weeks 

 wheat, the Soules wheat and the Diehl wheat. Of course these 

 different varieties have their advocates, who esteem one suj)erior to 

 another. But these kinds have proved themselves to be all emi- 



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