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latitudes is not pretended. The Hon. B. Vaughan, of Hallowell^ 

 had several bushels ripen in his garden, the summer past — and we 

 also saw i load, which were said lo have been grown in the town 

 of Jay, nearly fifty miles more northerly. The worst evil which 

 we have to contend with, is the effect of frosts, early in the spring. 

 Soon as the weather begins to grow warm and the snow thaws 

 from around the roots, the sap starts, — during the night, it fjrcczes 

 and kills the branches. The best preventive of this, is, to keep 

 the snow as long as possible about the roots and body of the tree. 



Diseases to zohich Peach Trees are subject. By A. Parmentier, 



Proprietor of the Horticultural Botanic Garden, Brooklijn, L. I. 



JS''ezo-York. 



In this country the Peach Tree is attacked principally by worms 

 that feed upon the roots, near the surface of the ground. Few re- 

 medies have been employed with success. It appears, however, 

 as I have been informed by a firmer of New-Jersey, that the ap- 

 plication of fish placed about the foot of the tree, drives away the 

 worms. Last year I removed many worms from a peach tree to 

 make the wounds which they had made to appear. I employed 

 with great success, bruised sorrel applied as a plaster, tied upon 

 the wounds. 1 have used bruised sorrel in Europe with equal suc- 

 cess upon gummed parts of the plum tree and apricot. It was 

 this use of it which first gave me the idea of applying it to the 

 peach tree. 



It is very advantageous to make in the summer, small heaps of 

 earth about five or six inches high, around the foot of the trees. 

 The insect goes upon them and deposits its eggs a little way under 

 the ground in the tree. In the fall, on removing the earth, the 

 eggs are left uncovered and perish by the frost. 



After the worms, the yellows is the malady which causes the 

 premature death of peach trees, 1 believe that the cause depends 

 in a great measure, on a defect in setting out the trees ; and it is 

 this upon which I found my reasoning. I have observed in this 

 country, that, for the most part in setting out trees, the earth is 

 very rarely dug up more than two spades deep, 'i'he tree is put 

 in, the roots are covered, and it is abandoned. If the tvcc is vigo- 

 rous, the roots soon extend in the loose soil, until they reach the 

 hard and impenetrable earth. On vegetating in the spring, the 

 roots are forced towards the surface of the ground, where they be- 

 come victims of insects. Finally, the tree deteriorates in its na- 

 ture, and a premature death follows. 



A hole of three feet deep and four broad, is not too large. Sods 

 of about three inches in thickness, cut fine with the spade, shotild 

 be put in the hole to the depth of two feet, and covered with about 

 one inch of good earth. Then put in the tree and cover Ihc roofs 

 with loose mellow earth or vegetable mould. Precaution should 

 be taken against the sinking of tlie earth, which ouglit to he calcu- 



