MANAGEMENT OF tRUIT TREES, &c. 25 



of the leaves, where the Acams, or Red Spider, is mostly 

 found, you will in a short time extirpate that destructive in- 

 sect*. 



It is a bad practice to pick off the leaves of peaches. The 

 shade of the leaves nourishes the fruit very much ; and if you 

 observe, wherever the leaves are picked off the fruit will be 

 small, stunted, and ill-flavoured. Remember to hang up the 

 bean-stalk (as hereafter described) before the fruit begins to 

 ripen, in order to get rid of the earwigs, &c. otherwise they 

 will greatly injure the peaches. — [See the Chapter on Insects,'\\ 



I would recommend planting some trees of the early 

 peaches in an East or a North aspect, for, by so doing, you 

 will have a regular succession of fine peaches till the late sorts, 

 to the South and West come in ; but never plant late sorts to 

 the North or East. 



The following are the Sorts that I would recommend to he planted 

 in North and East Aspects, 



Early Avant, Early Ann, Early Mignonne, Roal George, 

 Red Magdalen, Royal Kensington, Noblesse, Gross Mignon- 

 ne, and Millet's Mignonne. 



* The directions here given cannot possibly be observed in the manage- 

 ment of large peach-orchards in America; but it will be no great difficulty or 

 expence to observe them in gardens, where gentlemen set great value on their 

 trees, particularly in Philadelphia, and other cities and towns. 



t The American planter will not fail to profit from the directions given 

 for the destruction of these noxious little vermin, which spoil both the ap- 

 pearance and the taste of no small part of every crop of his peaches. 



