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THE BARNES BROS. NURSERY CO., YALESVILLE, CONN. 
excessively dense foliage will not produce brilliant colored fruit of fine flavor; but on poor 
land some of this luxuriant growth will be desirable and can be induced by liberal broad- 
cast application of fertilizer. Phosphoric acid, potash and clover are best for light or 
sandy land, which is usually deficient in potash. We have found wood ashes to be a most 
complete fertilizer for peach trees, but if some nitrogen is needed to induce more wood 
growth, a good grade of bone or tankage is always in order to use, giving both nitrogen 
and phosphoric acid. Avoid the use of dissolved rock in combination with wood ashes, 
but otherwise its use gives a cheap source of phosphoric acid and with muriate of potash 
gives a very low priced fertilizer. 
BORERS. The best method of caring for the borers is as follows: Mound up with 
earth to the height of 
eight or ten inches the 
first of June, and leave in 
this condition till after 
October 1st, then with- 
draw the mound and if 
any borers are present 
(which may be known by 
the gummy exudation 
filled with sawdust), dig 
them out with a knife or 
other sharp pointed in- 
strument. Coating bark 
with lime-sulphur wash 
before mounding will also 
help. 
MUCH MIGHT BE SAID 
about the fruit and mar- 
keting, but this would re- 
quire a volume. The most 
important point is not to 
allow a tree to overbear. 
Thin the fruit to make 
it better and the trees 
longer-lived. 
SMALL TREES. It is 
not always that the larg- 
est trees are the best. 
Medium sized trees are 
taken up with plenty of 
roots — nearly all the roots 
the trees ever had — and 
are not seriously checked 
when transplanted. 
LARGE PLANTERS, and 
those at a distance, will 
find that there is a great 
economy in medium sized 
trees. Of course they do 
not look so large when 
first planted, but when 
comes the 
little fellows will be found 
readj. for work, and a 
large saving is made in 
first cost and in labor in 
planting. 
This photograph ilhistrates the way we grade and bunch our Peach 
Trees. Beginning at the left. Fig. 5 shows our 2 to 3 ft. grade tied in bunch hesrincr timp rnmpt: th 
u f h ^ * li8ht;<:^liP<^rin8 just under 7-16th inch, tied in Kff""!,,™"!..-,';"?!®^.:" 
bunch of 25. tig. 3, our 3 to 4 ft. regular grade, cahpenng 7-16 to K inch, 
tied in bunch of ten. Fig. 2, our 'A to 9-16 inch grade in bunch of ten. 
Fig. 1, our 9-16 inch and up grade in bunch of ten. Our two grades of 3 to 
4 ft. trees are fully as good as the "seconds" of other firms. Notice how 
evenly each grade runs. We grade our trees almost entirely by caliper 
instead of height. 
We wish to particularly emphasize this one point : Get good stock, whatever it costs. 
It is cheaper in the end than any amount of trash given you. 
Twenty-five years ago the great cry was "you will overdo the business." This same 
prediction has been made many times since, but largely by people who neglected to plant, 
or those who after planting, failed to care for their orchards intelligently. 
It is not too much to expect a peach orchard to have paid for itself at five years of 
age. An investment yielding ten per cent, dividends, and safe, is considered, a gilt-edge 
proposition. An investment in a peach orchard, according to now well-known conditions, 
IS a proposition many times better than ten per cent, stock. 
