CHOICE FRUIT TREES, SMALL FRUITS AND ORNAMENTALS 
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The question has often been asked, "How can I keep the borers out of my Peach trees ?" Go through 
your orchard, and where you find sum on the surface of the bark, clean the dirt from around it. and 
with a knife or some sharp-pointed instrument follow up the worms and kill them ; then throw around 
the tree a little lime or ashes. Attend to this two or three times durinp the sprina: or summer, and you 
will keep your trees healthy, as well as j?reatly extend their ii.4eful life. 
Peach-Borer Wash. Take one-half to three-quarters of a pound of tobacco, plujc or leaf, break or 
cut it up, and boll it well in about a gallon and a half of water, strain out the tobacco, and to the 
liquid add a pint of salt, from a quarter- to a half-pound of carbolic soap, and enough fre±ihly slaked 
lime to make a thick wa^ih. 
Second Receipt. Highly recommended, and we consider it the most effective. For a fifty-gallon 
cask, twenty-five pounds of caustic potash, three pounds of common white arsenic, two gallons of crude 
carbolic acid, with water, lime and clay enough to make a good, thick wash that will last on the trees 
three or four months. 
Early in the spring scrape the dirt away from the trunk of the tree as deep as the top roots, and 
with a paint or whitewash brush apply a coat of the above wash from a foot above the ground 
down to the roots. When dry. replace the soil around the trunk. Should a wa.shing rain, during the 
spring or early summer, dissolve or carry off this wash, it must be renewed. The above is to be used 
as a preventive, not to distroy the borer within the bark, but to prevent the deposit of eggs by the borer 
moth during the spring and summer months. 
Peach, Plum. Apricot and Nectarine trees should all have the above care. To keep your fruit clear 
of worms, allow no fruit to drop and rot in your orchard. Keep enough hogs to eat it up. Keep it picked 
up clean and give it to them, or let them run in-lhe orchard and get it themselves as fast as it falls, 
thereby destroying both worms and eggs, and preventing an increase next year. Reasonable attention 
in these matters will go far to assure your success in fruit-growing. 
Pruning. — "In February, or as early in the spring as may be practicable, we commence pruning. 
This consists only in shortening in, i. e., cutting off half the last year's growth over the whole outside 
head of the tree and also upon the inner branches, shortening back the strongest limbs most. This 
brings the tree into a well-rounded shape. By reducing the young wood one^half. we at the same time reduce the coming crop one-half in quantity. 
The .cmaining half, receiving all the suostance of the tree, is of double the size. The young shoots which start out abundantly from all parts of the tree 
keep it well supplied with bearing wood for the next year, while the greater luxuriance and size of foliage, as a necessai-y consequence, produce larger 
and higher flavored fruit. Thus while we have secured against the prevalent evil an over-crop, we havp also provided for the full nourishment of the 
present year's fruit, and induced a supply of fniit-bearing shoots throughout the tree for the next season. This course of pruning should be followed 
regularly every year during the life of the tree. It is light work and (luickly done, and doubles the value of the fruit. The appearance of a tree pruned 
in this way after many years of bearing, is a very striking contrast to that of the skeletons usually seen. It is, in fact, a fine object, with a thick, low, 
bushy head filled with healthy young wood, and in summer with an abundance of dark green foliage and handsome fruit. No intelligent man will hesitat« 
about adopting so simple a course of treatment to secure such valuable results. We recommend it with entire confidence to the practice of every man in the 
After he has seen'and tested its good effects we do not fear his laying it aside." — Downing. 
Mayflower. 
country who cultivates a Peach tree. 
Select List of Peaches 
The following is a select list of Peaches, ripening from May 15 to November, according to location and climate, and we do not hesitate to say the col- 
lection cannot be surpassed, if equalled, in the Southern, or Border States. Varieties are arranged below in order of ripening as near as possible for 
Tennessee. In South Carolina and Georgia fhey will ripen from six to ten days earlier; in Alabama and Mississippi from ten days to two weeks or more 
earlier. North of Tennessee they ripen later; in Virginia from four days to a week later; ten days to three weeks later in Maryland and Delaware: 
about five weeks later in northern New Jersey, and five to six weeks later in New York. Note the time of ripening of certain varieties in youf section; 
compare same with our catalogue, and you can tell the difference in time of ripening at the different places. 
ALEXANDER. One of the earliest Peaches. 
Fruit medium size, nearly covered with crimson ; 
flesh white and good ; valuable market variety 
South ; bears very young. June. 
ADMIRAL DEWEY. We consider this the most 
valuable early Peach yet introduced. It has all the 
grand qualities of the Triumph, without its defects ; 
it ripens with the Triumph, is an early and abun- 
dant bearer, a vigorous and symmetrical grower, 
with hardy wood, and a perfect freestone, with a 
very small stone. Flesh of uniform yellow to the 
stone and of excellent quality, round, very firm; 
color beautiful yellow ground, with lively red on 
the sunny side ; as large as the Triumph and is an 
excellent shipper. No one can afford to be without 
this new variety. 
BILYEU. Large : nearly covered with dark red : 
flesh white, rich, juicy and firm. A good shipper; 
rather late. Middle to last of October. 
BELLE OF GEORGIA. Very large : skin white, 
with red cheek ; flesh white, firm and of excellent 
flavor; the fruit is uniformly large and showy : pro- 
lific bearer. Chinese Cling seedling, freestone. 
CHINESE CLING. Large: skin transparent 
cream-color, with marble of red next the sun ; flesh 
creamy-white; very juicy and melting. July 25. 
CAPTAIN EDE. A large freestone Peach— a 
seedling of Chinese Cling. Originated in Southern 
Illinois. Very prolific and hardy; a large, beauti- 
fully colored yellow-fleshed Peach of finest quality, 
ripening with Early Crawford — about the middle 
of July. 
CROSBY. Originated near Billerica, Mass.. and 
noted on account of its hardiness. P^ruit medium 
size, roundishj slightly flattened, with a distinct 
seam ; color bright orange-yellow, with a very_ bright 
red cheek, very handsome : flesh yellow, mild and 
pleasant. August 1. 
CHAMPION. A Western Peach of very large 
size and good quality, also noticeable for the regu- 
larity of its bearing. Skin is of a rich creamy 
white, with a red cheek ; flesh creamy-white, sweet 
and delicious, rich and juicy. A most profltable 
and good-selling market Peach. July 20. 
CARMAN. In this new, hardy, rot-proof Peach, 
ripening at the same time as Early Rivers, and yet 
almost as large and fine as the Elberta itself, we 
have a Peach of great market value; a large, round- 
ish Peach, with pale yellow skin, red blush on 
sunny side ; white flesh, tender, and melting ; rich, 
sweet and superior flavor; by far the finest of any 
Peach ripening ahead of the Mountain Rose. A 
big. early, yellow-skinned Peach of high quality 
is sure to be in great demand. June 20. 
CRAWFORD'S EARLY. Large, oblong; akin 
yellow, with red cheek : flesh yellow, melting, sweet 
and rich. July 10. 
Budding Peach. 
