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PEACH TREES WITH APPLE TREES. 



Sir, — Would you recommend peach trees to be planted alternately with apple trees, 

 and to be cut out after ten or twelve years' growth ? 



S. DoBiE, Manchester, England. 



This is the usual custom in Ontario, where peaches succeed and the soil is 

 suitable. The apple trees are planted thirty or forty feet apart each way, and 

 the peach trees between in the rows, and one additional row of peach trees be- 

 tween the apple tree rows. In this way we get, say, fifty apple trees and one 

 hundred and fifty peach trees to an acre. The peach trees die out in the course 

 of fifteen years, more or less, leaving the ground entirely to the apple orchard. 

 Of course peach trees must have light, well-drained soil. They do not grow 

 well on clay land. 



IMPERIAL MEASURE. 



Sm, — I have read a good deal in your journal regarding the spraying of fruit trees, 

 and the proportions in which the poisons should be mixed. When giving a formula, do 

 you understand that the imperial, or some other measure, should be used ? Would you 

 please enlighten us ? 



W. J. Richardson, Oshawa, Out. 



We take it for granted that the authorized measure is the one which would 

 be understood by all our readers as the one to be used. 



AMBER CAP RASPBERRY. 



Sir, — I mail you to day a bunch of Amber Color Cap Berry, a seedling ; let me know 

 what you think of it. The bush is very hardy and a very large yielder ; taste of berry I 

 think, far ahead of any Black Cap. Jacob Segmiller, Wallcerton. 



This appears to be an excellent bearer and of fair sized berries, but in our 

 opinion the color would not take in the market as well as either red, black, or 

 yellow. 



BUDDING YOUNG TREES. 



These questions by Mr. John Fothergill, of Marnoch, are ansivered by Mr. 

 John E. Morris, of Fonthill. 



1. Can apples, pears, cherries, plums and peaches all be successfully bud- 

 ded ? Yes. 



2. What kind of stocks can they be respectively budded upon other than 

 their own ? None, excepting Pears for dwarf, which are budded on Angiers 

 Quiver. 



3. What time should each of the above-named kinds be budded ? Apples, 

 pears or plums, last of July or fore part of August ; cherries, middle of August ; 

 peaches, latter part of August. 



