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ternal applications to kill or discourage the borer. 

 Lazy methods are in the end expensive ones Cur- 

 culios are caught on sheets, and some still use also 

 the methods of catching them under chips. Catch- 

 ing the curculios means early rising and persist- 

 ent effort through several weeks, but if the insects 

 are abundant the effort pays. Begin as soon as the 

 blossoms fall. Spraying with arsenites is not yet 

 a practice ; it is but a rude experiment in the hands 

 of a few growers. But the practice will establish 

 itself some day. We only need to learn a few 

 more details and to practice nicety of application. 



er peaches, or at least the second grade. A custo- 

 mer does not purchase a bushel basket as a dainty 

 present to his wife or sweetheart. Uniformity in 

 grading the fruit must be imperative. It is always 

 allowable to turn the red cheeks uppermost on the 

 package, but there must also be red cheeks through- 

 out the basket. The man who puts up the dainti- 

 est packages is the one who gets the best prices. 

 But a dainty parcel demands fine fruits. The im- 

 mature, woolly, green and hard peaches one too 

 often sees in the markets may as well be sold in grain 

 bags, or shoveled from a wagon into a dry-goods box. 



A Model Peach Orchard Ten Years Planted. 



Yellows is not to be regarded as a curse to peach 

 growing as a whole. It simply weeds out the shift- 

 less and unprogressive growers. The men who 

 have endeavored to argue it out of of their or- 

 chards have been distanced by those who have dug 

 it out. And we shall all sooner or later accept the 

 radical method of treatment or go out of the busi- 

 ness; it is but a matter of time. 



Honest and tasteful marketing never pays bet- 

 ter than in peaches. The fruit will always rank 

 among the luxuries in Northern markets, and lux- 

 uries must be attractive. Small gift packages are 

 the best. Bushel baskets usually contain the poor- 



Varieties are always local considerations, yet, 

 none the less, among the most important. Varieties 

 are often matters of fashion rather than of merit. 

 Old sorts, which have fallen from the lists, often re- 

 appear; the old Barnard is now reappearing along 

 the Michigan shore. The following sorts appear to 

 be finding the most favor at present in that region 

 Hale's Early, Lewis Seedling, Mountain Rose, 

 Barnard, Snow's Orange, Yellow Alberge, Jacques' 

 Rareripe, Switzerland, Hill's Chili, Golden Drop — 

 a local variety — Smock. 



Cornell University. L. H. Bailey. 



