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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 Ught or 
sandy land, which is usually deficient in potash. We have found wood ashes to be a most 
complete fertihzer 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 carina; for the borers is as follows: Mound up with 
earth to the height of 
eight or ten inches during 
the month of June aiid 
leave in this condition till 
after October 1st, then 
withdraw 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 
This photograph illustrates the way we grade and bunch our Peach first planted, but when 
trees. Beginning at the left, Fig. 1 shows our 2 to 3 £t. grade tied m bunch bearing time Comes the 
of 25. Fiu. 2 our 3 to 4 ft., light, calipenng just under 7-16th inch, tied in j. . fellows will be found 
bunch of 25 Fig 3 our 3 to 4 ft. regular grade, calipenng 7-16 to >i inch, '"tie leuows win uc iwui.vi 
{ied ii bufchof tin Fig. 4, our to 9-l6inch gra^^^ ready for work and a 
Fiz 5 our 9-16 inch and up grade in bunch of ten. Our two grades of 3 to large saving IS made in 
4ft trees are fully as good as the "seconds" of other firnns. Notice how „ & . ^ ■ labor in 
evenly each grade i^ins. We grade our trees almoit entirely by caliper in- ^rst COSl ana in iduor 
stead of height. planting. 
We wish to particulariy emphasize thu one point: Get good stock whatever it costs. 
It is cheaper in the end than any amount of trash given you. 
Twentv-five years ago the great cry was "you will overdo the business." This same 
predicrion has beL madi 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 
aee An"nvestm7nt yielding ten per cent, dividends and safe is considered a gilt edge 
ofoposttfon An investment in a peach orchard, according to now well-known conditions, 
is a prososition many times better than ten per cent, stock. 
