THE PEACH, 97 
Malta or Belle de Paris, Royal Charlotte, and William's 
Early Purple; CHNENOEES Catharine, Heath, and Old 
Newington. . . : 
The following account of the'modes of cultivating the 
peach in England, whilst it shows the impediments opposed 
by nature to the development of this fruit in that climate, 
may prove useful to those who reside in the more northern 
United States and British Colonies where the climate is 
unfavorable to the perfection of this delicious fruit in the 
open air.* In all the Southern and Middle: States. the 
peach-tree flourishes in the open air, and planted in orchards, 
attains some fifteen or twenty feet in height. The position 
where the peach is fqund. perhaps in the greatest perfection 
is about the latitude of Baltimore’ and Washington. In 
the State of Delaware, south of Philadelphia, thousands 
of acres are covered with peach-trees, affording the greatest 
abundance of fruit in the highest perfection. Baskets, 
holding about three pecks, are commonly sold at twenty: 
five to fifty cents. The varieties of this fruit known in 
the United States are very numerous, and every year 
increasing. 
Propagation.—The facility with which this is effected i in 
the United States may be judged of by the fact, that vigor- 
ous budded trees from four to seven feet in height can be 
obtained at the nurseries at from threé to. five dollars per 
hundred. The first step is to'plant the pits in November, 
in some rich, light, or sandy soil, covering them about three 
inches deep. ‘They may be placed in rows four feet apart, 
and six or eight inches from each other... Or, the pits may 
be deposited during. the autumn, in moist sand or light 
* The management required, for obtaining the peach at extraordinary 
seasons will be found laid down in the déseription of operaticus connected 
with forcing 
Hay 
