THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



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By the bye, talking about orchards, in the 

 course of our peregrinations this fall, we fell in 

 with a very curious work, entitled " Prime facts 

 for the Farmer, Fruit Grower and the Public." 

 It is made up of opinions and statements fur- 

 nished Mr. M. R. Bartlett, the Editor, by Mr. 

 John Forman, of Western New York. Mr. 

 Forman is represented as a practical farmer and 



most successful fruit grower. His management 

 of his peach trees is to us entirely novel, and as 

 it comes so strongly recommended by the au- 

 thor's reputation for success in his peaches par- 

 ticularly, at the risk of being a little prosy, we 

 will give it in his own words. 

 The engraving represents his 



RENOVATED PEACH -TREE 



ct The peach tree seed demands, invariably, a 

 dry, warm, and strong soil, free of stones, lueeds, 

 and grass, and smally declining in some direc- 

 tion, so as to avoid standing pools of water. — 

 From this ground, which should be located 

 quite remote from all old and sickly peach trees, 

 the weeds, &c. should be carefully dressed out 

 two or three times during each season, and all 

 cob-web nests, and the homes of insects, should 

 be thoroughly brushed away. Any other course 

 than this, may possibly save labor, but it inevi- 

 tably leaves the infant tree exposed to incurable 

 disease and early decay. 



"In the next place, in order to preserve the 

 nursery plant from the visitation of the white 

 grub-like worm and all other unfriendly insects, 

 the earth immediately about the root of each 

 plant, must be effectually drenched with stale 



chamber lye, and this must be followed up faith- 

 fully during the months of August, September 

 and October of each year of the seedling's nur- 

 sery growth. The free application of This lye 

 to the ground about the plant, has been found 

 effectual in keeping every kind of noxious in- 

 sect out of the way, and preserving the plant 

 not only in a healthy state, but in a fair and 

 thrifty condition for the orchard. 



" Well tested experiments effectually show 

 that dry, elevated, and rolling ground, is not 

 only the most, inviting, but the most safe and 

 the most certain. And should the surface chance 

 to be quite broken and quite rocky, these form 

 no serious objections. 



"Much of the success in the cultivation of 

 this fruit, is generally supposed to depend upon 

 the direction of the descent of the ground of the 



