THE FLOKIST 



AND HORTICULTURAL JOURNAL. 



RHODODENDRON CINNAMOMEO-CAMPANULATUM, 



Comtesse Ferdinand Visart. (Van Houtte.) 



TTe give in this number a figure of a variety of Rhododendron Cinnamo- 

 meum, obtained by Mr. "Van Houtte, of Ghent. The foliage is handsome, 

 cinnamon color beneath, and the flowers, creamy white, bordered with rose, 

 produced in large clusters. It is adapted, in this climate, to a cool green- 

 house. 



CULTURE OF THE PEACH TREE. 



For the last few years the culture of the Peach has declined. The 

 "yellows," "blight," peach-worm and curculio have been singularly de- 

 structive, and fruit which a few years ago could be scarcely given away, 

 now finds ready sales at high prices. Old orchards are dying out, and com- 

 paratively few new ones formed to replace them ; confidence in their suc- 

 cessful culture is yearly growing weaker, till in almost every region we 

 travel we are told "Peaches will not grow with us any more." 



I am not going to deny that there are no difficulties attendant on modern 

 peach-growing near cities, or even that if there are difficulties, that they are 

 not greater than attended the efforts of our forefathers ; but merely to point 

 out how they can still be grown successfully, either to return a handsome 

 profit in a commercial point of view, or to yield a crop of the very finest 

 kind of fruit for the raiser's own table. 



The aspect of the site of a peach-orchard is one of the first importance. 

 Contrary to the general idea in favor of a southern exposure, a north- 

 western or western is preferable. Peach trees on a southern aspect seldom 

 bear well over five years, or live over ten. On any other, all other things 

 being equal, there seems to be, as there probably is, no limit to their age. 

 Rarely do we meet with a peach tree on a southern slope stricken with the 

 <c yellow3," while aged, healthy trees are invariably found in such places in 

 perfection. I have some trees at the present moment in my mind's eye, 

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