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DIRECTIONS FOR CULTIVATING PEACH
TREES.

To have thrifty peach trees, and fine fruit, the
ground should every year be kept cultivated by planting
it with corn, potatoes, or other vegetables; and
every autumn or spring, have well rotted manure dug
in around the trees.  Peach trees remaining more than
one year in grass or sod ground, become unthrifty and
yellow.  As it is a tree that soon comes to maturity, it
is always thought better to supply the place of those
that become diseased with young trees than to attempt
a cure.

When trees are received that cannot be immediately
planted, a trench should be dug, the roots well wet in
water and laid in it, then covered with earth pulverized,
so as to settle well about them, and prevent their drying;
in this manner trees are often kept through the
winter with perfect safety.
        