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about one-third the price of full-grown, well-ripened fruit. It 

 is twenty years since we pruned Peach trees, in the same man- 

 ner as we have described for Currant bushes, keeping the 

 young wood thin,- and shortening every growth in the Fall or 

 Winter pruning. The trees are thereby made more compact, 

 not so liable to be broken, and produce finer fruit ; the beauty 

 of the tree is improved, and its age lengthened. 



The Borer ) or Peach-worm, is very destructive to this tree. 

 The insect, according to Say, is a dark-blue, four-winged, slen- 

 der moth, depositing its egg during the Summer months around 

 the tree, close to the surface of the ground. Ashes have been 

 long used as a protective against this destroyer, with very 

 good effect ; and recently half a peck of air-slacked lime, heaped 

 round the tree during the month of May, is considered as a 

 perfect antidote, effectually securing the tree against its ene- 

 my. The lime is spread over the ground after the fall of the 

 leaf, and a fresh supply given every year at the above period. 



There is a disease called " The Yellows" very prevalent in 

 some orchards, which is attributed to a variety of causes. 

 The main one, we presume, will generally be found in unge- 

 nial soil, and overcropping of the trees. We say, thin out the 

 crop — do not allow one fruit to be within two inches of its 

 neighbor. Shorten the young growths of the tree by Winter 

 pruning, and cut out others where they are too thick, thereby 

 giving plenty of air to all parts of the tree. Manure every 

 other year and crop light. With such a routine of culture the 

 Yellows will be a stranger. Trees that produce a crop of fruit 

 which is yearly carried off the ground, must have some return, 

 by enriching the soil, either by manure from the stable-yard, 

 or rich composts of lime, marl, plaster, &c. 



