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hard and compact wood, and is used by the Prusian cabinet 

 makers for ladies work-boxes, and other small and bijou-like 

 cabinets. With us the peach tree is of rapid growth, and from 

 bad management, is ill-shapen and carries with it the element of 

 its own destruction : all these faults can be remedied by proper 

 culture. The plan proposed by the large peach growers of New 

 Jersey and Delaware gives them but three crops of good quality 

 and two of inferior, when they are removed and replaced by oth- 

 ers. We believe that by proper management, the peach tree may 

 be made to yield its delicious fruit of unimpaired quality for 

 many years. The pits used for planting should be selected from 

 districts where the yellows, as a disease, is unknown. They 

 should be placed in the ground point downward, and not buried 

 below the surface; if this is done late in the summer, the freez- 

 ings and thawing of fall and winter will burst the shells. Mois- 

 ture entering the soft or upper end of the shell as provided for 

 by nature, and swelling while congealing so as to rend the shell 

 asunder in the striation of its natural cleavage. 



In the spring each kernel will vegetate and, if positioned as 

 directed, will not be constrained to give a curved direction to the 

 young shoot, to enable it to pierce the surface and reach the light, 

 which would be the case if placed in any other position in the 

 ground. These pits should be planted, as directed, in rows two 

 feet apart, one foot distant in the rows. For mode of budding 

 see Downing's Fruit Trees of America. While in the nursery 

 rows do not permit the earth to be piled up about the trunks, 

 and as the young bark, from want of circulation of air, sometimes 

 becomes scurvy near the soil, wet them with a solution of one 

 pound of soda dissolved in one gallon of water, a month or more 

 before the time of transplanting them. 



Treatment of ike trees vjhen taken from the nursery roics. — Cut 

 off every branch close to the main trunk, leaving the tree in a 

 single shaft like a straight walking-cane ; remove no roots unless 

 bruised or broken, then cut ofif, with a sharp knife, the bruised 

 parts in such direction as to leave the exposed part of the cut 

 facing downward. The object of cutting all the limbs close in 

 to the trunk, is first to prevent evaporation of moisture from 



