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peach seedlings that have grown up from the seed for all. If the fences are good it would be possib.e 
will be big enough to bud. probably 24 in. or more to pasture hogs or sheep—at least enough to pay 
in height. The exact time is not overly important, taxes and insurance—and this would interfere bur 
for the peach can be budded over a number of weeks, little with the plan of keeping up soil fertility. We 
The expert budder in the nursery begins his work know that there are many cases where farm owners 
so that he can complete the block of seedlings before are sorely tempted to do something of this sort. It 
they have sef their bark; the longer the job. the is a good subject for a discussion right at this time, 
earlier he begins and the later he works. If the and we would like to have our readers take it up. 
bark will not slip, it is almost impossible to set the 
bud. A safe rule is to watch the growth of the 
seedlings: as long as they are growing the bark will 
slip. On the other hand, they must not be budded 
too early or the flow of sap will “flood" the bud and 
‘•drown" it. Most budding is done some time in 
August or early September. 
Buds are taken from the current season's growth. 
Now it must be remembered that the peach has two 
kinds of buds—flower buds and leaf buds. On a 
fruiting rree the buds are normally in threes, a cen¬ 
tral leaf bud flanked on either side by a fruit bml. 
A fruit bud will always remain a fruit bud. It 
blossoms, and that is the end. A leaf bud produces 
a shoot, which is what wc want for our new tree. 
In the nursery there is little trouble from this 
point, because the bud wood is taken from the one 
Cotton In Bergen County, New Jersey 
T UB picture at Fig. 568 shows samples of cotton 
from the crop growing ;il Hope Farm. These 
bolls were picked on October 10. Since then the 
cotton has had a week more of growth, the first 
killing freeze occurring on the night of October is. 
The plants were killed at that time, but some of 
the bolls were so far advanced that they may yet 
open. This cotton was planted about May 15. We 
should have planted two weeks earlier. The soil 
was not best suited to the crop, being cold and 
naturally damp. This fact, with the very wet. sea¬ 
son. makes it all the more remarkable that the cot¬ 
ton came so near to maturity in the latitude of New 
York City. Wc would like to have records of other 
attempts to mature cotton north of Philadelphia. 
The great majority of our readers probably never 
saw the cotton plant in the field. These at Hope 
Farm grew a little over 4 ft. high, and during the 
latter part of August began to throw out bloom. 
The (lowers show considerable beauty to a Northern 
eye. They were of various colors. After a few 
days the petals drop and a hard bunch or "boll" 
forms at the base of the flower. This grows slowly 
into the shape and size shown in the picture which, 
ns stated, was picked on 
October 10, The figure at “ 
the middle shows a sinii- P 
lar boll cut crosswise and 
peeled at the side. The 
cut was made directly 
through the cotton seeds 
which, as we see, were M 
forming inside the boll. 
The white mass shows how ,■ 
the cotton or lint is form- 
ing. The picture at the * .4 
right gives another of Kja 
this lint—nearly ready to fry S 
burst open the boll and 'Jr jgH 
ci line foi'ili ready pick. 
It is a eiiri"i;- gt-ou .and j&d _ V 
ci '>! interr-a ing I" K*i ' -V 
who w.ateh if 1'er the tir-t 
time We -had leseiae 
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comment regarding the jb. 
possibilities of this crop I 
for New Jersey or Dela- 
ware until we see just 
what our own plants will 
do. At this moment it 
seems possible to obtain a small quantity of tlie 
mature line, but the frost may have destroyed that 
hope. 
The Rome Beauty Apple as a Filler 
T HE best filler for the apple orchard is still a 
moot question. Wealthy has been planted 
largely for this purpose, too largely in fact, as those 
who sold their fruit this season on the glutted Sum¬ 
mer apple market can testify. Early apples are not 
as profitable for the Northern grower as they used 
to be. and for a very obvious reason. Almost unbe¬ 
knownst to some orcha relists in the North, the 
growers in Southern lillinois, Indiana and Ohio, and 
in Maryland. Virginia and Delaware have gradually 
wrested away the early apple market, and left their 
more unfortunate Northern comrades in a so-mewhat 
sorrowful predicament. The Northern growers must 
realize that they cannot compete excepting on their 
local markets for the early 
| j ■■ ;| ppd' trade. They must, 
51 apple channel, where earli- 
ness is no premium. Oon- 
How Peach Trees are Started 
Will you tell the best way to handle peach pits for 
growing young trees? Also time of budding, and what 
kind of buds used? F. H. M. 
Michigan. 
I N the propagation of peach trees the first step is 
the securing of he seeds and their storage in 
