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whereas, when cut next to a fruit bud, the limb will die down 

 to the first wood bud, which will grow in a new direction, leaving 

 a dead stud, and engendering disease in the limb from the en- 

 trance of moisture into the dead and absorbent stud. 



The following spring shorten again in one-half the growth of 

 the new wood, and so continue each year, always cutting next 

 to a wood bud. By the third year you will have a round headed 

 tree like the horse chestnut, with a great number of short branch- 

 es capable of sustaining the weight of a heavy crop of fruit; 

 whereas, if left to grow in the usual manner, the tree would bear 

 its first fruit on the end of a very few long, straggling branches, 

 which would be bent down by the weight of the crop, and either 

 be broken off at the trui.k or close tlieir capillary tubes on the 

 lower side by bending, so as to prevent the travelling out of the 

 sap tlie year following for fruit making. 



Peach trees will not bear fruit profitably, unless the soil be 

 thoroughly disturbed about them every year. 



Such trea,tment as we have here recommended, we believe, 

 will render the peach long lived and fruitful. It is with us an 

 exotic, and cannot be treated like the apple or other native trees. 

 The bark should be kept clean by the soda wash. Cold manures 

 not fermentable in their character, may be occasionally added, 

 and the worm carefully removed from the earth collar, if it 

 should enter from neglect of applying the sslt and lime mixture. 

 On our farm we have a few trees so treated, which are double 

 the size and strength of those planted at the same tine and treat- 

 ed in the ordinary way. 



Solon Robinson.— I cut close from the ground and let the tree 

 branch out from the ground. I do not make a cane of it. I 

 carried the pit5 for my orchard three hundred miles, to Indiana, 

 and have raised almost all varieties from them. I spaded the 

 ground two feet deep, put in a good qiiantity of horse manure 

 and the black soil over that. I never saw iintr fruit than I had 

 in 1836, and tlie trees bore last year, but not a very large crop. 

 They are bushes of five parts, and some of them bend to the 

 ground. 



