48 TREATISE ON FRUIT TREES. 



experience provides incontrovertible proof. Nevertheless, only five leagues away from 

 Paris I've seen extremely fine Violette & Chevreuse peach trees grafted on almond trees 

 & planted on two espaliers, one facing south, the other to the west, in soil of good 

 quality, though heavy & dense. They yield excellent, very attractive and very abundant 

 fruit. That kind of terrain could be an exception. I must add that the plum tree always 

 seemed to me to be a poor stock for some kinds of peach tree grafts, of only average 

 quality for the rest, & much inferior to apricot & almond trees. 



The dormant bud graft is the only suitable graft for a peach tree. It's done on plum 

 & on old almond trees from mid- July until mid- August - a little later on apricot trees. 

 And on young peach & almond trees from mid-August until mid-September or more 

 precisely when the second rise of sap in whichever stock is used is subsiding. That may 

 come earlier or later depending on how the season progresses. The bud graft should 

 contain a double or triple bud & not a single one. 



III. The peach tree is definitely not a tree for all climates. It can't survive in 

 southern America or in countries below or near the tropics. Italy and even Provence don't 

 have our delicate peaches & have to be satisfied with their clingstones that succeed only 

 rarely and indifferently in our own climate. The tree is entirely unknown in northern 

 America and in all northern regions. So the temperate climate is the only one that suits it. 

 The Paris region doesn't enjoy the benefit of peach trees growing normally in open 

 ground the way they do in several provinces not as far north. But the many excellent 

 kinds of peach trees that do grow there successfully yield abundant fruit 



