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AN ESPALIER NECTARINE FRAMING A WINDOW 

 And covering the wall on Mr. Storrow's garage as effectively as any vine 



Growing Nectarines Indoors and Out in New England 



THAT nectarines can be grown on brick walls 

 out of doors even in bleak New England has 

 been demonstrated by James J. Storrow of Lin- 

 coln, Mass., who has been gathering generous 

 crops of this fine fruit, which tastes like a peach 

 and looks like a plum, for several years. Mr. 

 Storrow's brick garage is built around a court 

 yard, the walls on three sides of which are covered 

 with trained nectarine trees. 



The trees were brought from England and 

 were intended for growing under glass. When 

 the greenhouse had been planted, however, it 

 was found that several trees had been left over, 

 and the experiment of growing them on the garage 

 wall was decided upon. 



The trees were planted about a foot from the 

 walls and trained on a light trellis. In the early 

 part of July it is usually necessary to trim out 

 some of the season's wood, and the new shoots 

 which are left are looped with Jeather or raffia 

 fast to the trellis. 



Usually the fruit sets much too heavily and 

 must be thinned. Spraying is important, too, 

 as this fruit is subject to attacks of San Jose 

 scale, aphis, curculio, leaf curl, yellows and mil- 

 dew. On the Storrow place free use is made of 

 lime-sulphur, bordeaux mixture and Black Leaf 

 40. The superintendent, Mr. Scott T. Doten, 

 applies Thompson's fruit and vine fertilizer to 

 keep the trees growing well throughout the sum- 

 mer, while rotted manure is dug into the soil in 

 the fall to give them a good start in the spring. 



The one secret of growing nectarines in a cli- 

 mate like that of New England seems to be to 

 have the wood well ripened when cold weather 

 comes on. Mr. Doten stops all cultivation in the 

 middle of July and mulches the roots lightly with 

 lawn clippings. The only protection in winter is 

 provided by evergreen branches like Red Cedars 

 set thickly in front of the trees. 



A rather small even-span house is used for 

 growing the nectarines inside. Trellises are placed 

 crosswise of the house and the trees allowed to 



grow to the top of these trellises, where they are 

 stopped. Of course much more work is required 

 to grow nectarines under glass than in the open 

 air, for almost daily syringing is needed to keep 

 down the red spider, new branches have to be 

 trained and surplus wood cut out. It is as neces- 

 sary to thin nectarines indoors as out. 



In order to have a fairly early spring crop the 

 fires in the greenhouse are started early in Janu- 

 ary, and the day temperature is kept at 45 de- 

 grees at the start, being increased to from 60 

 degrees to 75 degrees as growth advances. The 

 night temperature is increased from 40 degrees 

 at the beginning to 50 degrees later on. Care 

 has to be taken not to allow the temperature to 

 run much above 65 degrees at any time while the 

 trees are in bloom. 



The trees were chosen in the first place with 

 the purpose of making a long season and nec- 

 tarines from the greenhouse are enjoyed for fully 

 two months, after which the outdoor crop comes 

 on. Cardinal, the variety to ripen first, is a very 

 early nectarine bright green in color except on 

 the side toward the sun, where it is red. Early 

 Rivers is the variety which ripens second. This 

 is a very large nectarine of good flavor and green- 

 ish white in color, with a pink cheek. Out of 

 doors it is ripe about the end of August and 

 under glass comes early in June. Lord Napier 

 is the third in the succession and is a particularly 

 good kind for growing outside. The fruit of this 

 variety is very large and pale green, although 

 nicely colored when exposed to the sun. This is 

 considered one of the best members of the nec- 

 tarine family. The last variety to ripen is 

 Elruge, which is very large, too, yellow in color, 

 with a crimson cheek. This nectarine does es- 

 pecially well under glass, its season lasting well 

 into July. Two other late sorts, Pine Apple 

 and Victoria, are also grown to some extent, 

 making a season which extends from June until 

 the middle of October. 



E. I. Farrington, Mass. 



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