stone, Large Early York, j'Mammoth Free¬ 
stone, Oldmixon Free and Cling, Shockley’s 
Earley, Troth’s Early. Good— Allen’s Oc¬ 
tober, Druid Hill, Early Beatrice, Jacques, 
Large White Cliug, Lemon Cling, Smock, 
Stump the World, Susquehanna. Cherries. 
Best —Black Heart, Downer’s Late, Early 
Richmond. Good— Bigarreau, Elton, Gov. 
Wood, May Duke, Morello. Currants.— 
Red Dutch, White Grape, Cherry. Grapes. 
—Best —Catawba, Concord, Delaware, Hart¬ 
ford Prolific, Isabella, Ives, Maxatawney, 
Seuppernong. Good —Diana, Elsinburg, Eu- 
nielan, Israella, Martha, Salem. ItASBKRRIKS. 
— Best —American Black, Mammoth Cluster, 
Purple Cane, Good — Clarke, Herestine, 
Brincklo’s Orange, Philadelphia, Black¬ 
berry. —Dorchester, Kittatinny, Lawton, 
Wilson’s Early, STRAWBERRIES, Best—Dow¬ 
ner’s Prolific, Green Prolific, Wilson. Good — 
Agriculturist, Chas. Downing, Kentucky, 
Trioinphe de Gand. 
KENTUCKY. 
Apples —Varieties bast adapted: Am. 
Summer Pearmain, Autumn Bough, Ben Da¬ 
vis, Benoni, Carolina Red June, Chenango 
Strawberry, Early Harvest, Early Red Mar¬ 
garet, Early Joe, Fall Pippin, Fall Queen, 
Golden Sweet, Graveustein, Green Cheese, 
Hall, Howes’s Virginia Crab, Lansingburg, 
Late Strawberry, Maiden’s Blush, Magnum, 
Maxy, Munson Sweet, Porter, Pryor’s Red, 
Rarabo, Rawle’s Genet, Red Astrachan, Red 
Crab, Rome Beauty, Roxbury Russet, Smith’s 
Cider, Summer King, White Juneating, Wil¬ 
low Twig. Wine, Winesap. Good —Fall Wine, 
Fatneuse, Gilpin, Holly, Jonathan, King of 
Tompkins Co., Large Yellow Bough, Limber 
Twig, Milam, Moore’s Sweet, New town Pip¬ 
pin, Premium, Pumpkin Sweet, Rock Pippin, 
Sops of Wine, Stark, Townsend, White Pip¬ 
pin, Yellow Bellefleur. Pears. Best— Bart¬ 
lett, Beurre Giffard, Cbambeis, Duchesse 
d'Angouleme, Easter Beurre, Flemish Beauty, 
Lawienee, Onondaga, Osband’s Summer, 
Seckel, Sheldon, Tyson, Vicar of Wink Held 
Winter Nelis. Good —Belle Lucrative, Beurre 
d’Anjou, Beurre Diel, Bloodgood, Buffiun, 
Clapp’s Favorite, Doyenne d'Ete, Howell, 
Louise Bonne de Jersey, Madeleine, Rostiezer, 
Stevens’s Genesse, White Doyenne. Peaches. 
Best —Catharine, Chinese Cling, Columbia, 
Crawford’s Early, Early Tillotson, l* . _-e the 
Fourth, Hale’s Early, Heath Cling, Kl.. rick’s 
Heath, Lady Parham, Large Early York, 
Late Admirable, Morris’s White, Oldmixon 
Free and Cling, Smock, Tippecanoe, Troth’s 
Early, Van Zandt’s Superb, Ward’s Late 
Free. Good— Bergen’s Yellow, Cole’s Early 
Red, Crawford’s Late, Druid Hill, La Grange, 
Large White Cling, Lemon Cling, Malta, 
Royal George, Stump the World. Plums. 
Best —Lombard, Wild Goose. Good —Copper, 
Damson, Newman. Cherries. Best—Belle 
de Choisy, Black Eagle, Early Purple Guigne. 
Good—Arch Duke, Gov. Wood, Late Duke, 
May Duke, Morello, Napoleon. Currants. 
Best —La Versaillaise, Red Dutch. Good— 
Red and While Grape, White Dutch. Grapes. 
Best —Agawam, Concord, Delaware, Hartford 
Prolific, Ives, Merrimack, Norton’s Virginia. 
Good— Catawba, Clinton, Diana, Goethe, Isa¬ 
bella, Martha, Perkins, Wilder. Raspber¬ 
ries. —American Black, Mammoth Cluster. 
Blackberries —Wilson’s Early, Kittatinny. 
Strawberries. Best —Chas. Downing, Dow¬ 
ner’s Prolific, Seth Boy den, Wilson. Good — 
Agriculturist, Kentucky, Monarch of the 
West. 
MISSOURI. 
Apples. — Best —Carolina Red June, Early 
Harvest, Gilpin, Newtown Pippin, Pryor’s 
lied, Rawle’s Genet, Red Astrachan, Smith's 
Cider, White Winter Pearmain, Winesap. 
Good —Am. Summer Pearmain, Ben Davis, 
Bullock’s Pippin, Early Joe, Early Pennock, 
Early Strawberry, Esopus Spitzenberg, Fall 
Pippin, Fameuse, Fulton, Golden Sweet, Gra- 
venstein, Green Sweet, Hawthornden, Hub- 
Lnrdston Nonsuch, Jonathan, Lady Apple, 
Dirge Yellow Bough, Maiden’s Blush, Milam, 
Mother, Newtow n Spitzenberg, Peck’s Pleas¬ 
ant, Porter, Ramsdell’s Sweet, Rarnbo, R. I. 
Greening, Rome Beauty, Summer Queen, 
Swaar, Sweet Winesap, Wagener,‘Williams’s 
Favorite, Wine, Yellow Bellefieur. Pears. — 
B u-tlett, Belle Lucrative, Beurre Bose, Beurre 
Clairgeau, Beurre d’Aujou, Buffurn, Dear¬ 
born's Seedling, Doyenue Boussnck, Doy¬ 
enne d’Ete, Duchesse d’Angouleme, Easter 
Bmrre, Flemish Beauty, Glout Morceau, How¬ 
ell, Lawrence, Louise Bonne de Jersey, Napo¬ 
leon, Onondaga, Rostiezer, Seckel, Sheldon, 
Tyson, Urbaniste (best). White Doyenne, 
Winter Nelis. Plums.— Coe’s Golden Drop, 
Damson, German Prune, Imperial Gage, Lom¬ 
bard, Washington, Wild Goose, Yellow r Egg. 
Cherries.— Belle Magnifique, Bigarreau, 
Black Tartarian, Early Richmond, Elton, 
May Duke, Morello, Reine Hortense. Cur¬ 
rants. —Cherry, Red Dutch, White Grape. 
Grapes.— Best— Concord, Elvira, Norton’s 
Virginia. Good— Alvey, Brighton, Catawba, 
Clinton, Cottage, Cynthiana, Delaware, Goe¬ 
the, Ives, Massasoit, Martha, Maxatawney, 
Telegraph. Raspberries.— Mammoth Cluster, 
Philadelphia. Blackberries.— Kittatinny, 
Wilson’s Early. Straw*berries.— Agricul¬ 
turist, Green Prolific, Wilson. 
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MISSISSIPPI. 
Apples. Best —Am. Summer Pearmain, 
Carolina Red June, Early Harvest, Red 
Astrachan, Stevenson’s Winter, Taunton, 
Tillaquah. Good— Bevan’s Favorite, Bucking¬ 
ham, Carter’s Blue, Cullasaga, Early Straw¬ 
berry, Fall Pippin, Garretsou’s Early, Golden 
Sweet, Graveustein, Hoover, Horse, Julian, 
Pr.mate, Romanite, Shockley, Williams's 
Favorite. Peaches. Best —Columbia, Heath 
Cling, Indian Blood Cling, Lady Parham, 
Lemon Cling, Mountain Rose, Oldmixon 
Cliug, Fiequett’s Late, Yellow St. John, Good 
—Alexander. Amelia. Amsden’s June. Chinese 
g, Cole’s Early Red, Crawford’s Early-and 
Early Beatrice, Early Louise, Early 
avers, Hourly Tillotson, Grosse Mignonne, 
Hale’s Early, Large Early York, Oldmixon 
Free, Ray mond Cling, Smock, Stump the 
World, Susquehanna, Troth's Early, Yellow 
Rareripe. Pears. Best —Bartlett, Duchesse 
d’Angouleme, Good —Belle Lucrative, Beurre 
d’Anjou, Beurre Giffard, Beurre Superbn, 
Buff urn, Doyenne d’Ete, Flemish Beauty, 
Gray Doyenne, Howell, Lawrence, Ott, St. 
Ghislain, Shekel, Sheldon, Urbaniste, Winter 
Nelis. PLUMS. Best —Chickasaw, Wild Goose, 
Good —Brill, German Prune, Indian Chief, 
Lombard, Temple. Blackberries— Lawton, 
Wilson’s Early. Grapes —Clinton, Concord, 
Hartford Prolific, Ives, Maxatawney, Seup- 
pemong. Raspberries —Am. Black, Clarke, 
Davison’s Thornless, Golden Thornless, Her- 
stine, Mammoth Cluster. Strawberries.— 
Agriculturist, Chas. Downing, Green Prolific 
Kentucky, Longworth's Prolific, Triumphe de 
Gaud, Wilson. 
ILLINOIS. 
Apples. — Best —Am. Summer Pearmain, 
Ben Davis, Carolina Red June, Dominie, 
Duchess of Oldenburg, Fall Wine, Fa¬ 
meuse, Gilpin, Hubbardston Nonsuch, Jon¬ 
athan, Keswick Codlin, Maiden’s Blush, 
Northern Spy, Ramsdell’s Sweet, Red Astra- 
eban, Red Canada, Red Stripe, R. 1. Green¬ 
ing, Sops of Wine, Winesap. Good — 
American Beauty, Bailey Sweet, Baldwin, 
Belmont, Benoni, Campfield, Cooper, Danver’s 
Winter Sweet, Early Harvest, Early Joe, 
Fall Pippin, Fulton, Golden .Sweet, Grimes's 
Golden, Jersey Sweet, King of Tompkins Co. 
Lady Apple, Lady’s Sweet, Late Strawberry, 
Lowell, Newtown Pippin, Peck’s Pleasant, 
Porter, Primate, Pryor’s Red, Rarnbo, Roman 
Stem, Summer Bellefieur, Swaar, Sweet 
Winesap, Tabnan’s Sweet, Western Beauty, 
Peaks. Best —Bartlett, Beurre d’Aujou, 
Bloodgood, Duchesse d’Angouleme, Flemish 
Beauty, Howell, Lawrence, Seckel, Sheldon, 
Good —Belle Lucrative, Beurre Bose, Beurre 
Clairgeau, Beurre Diel, Beurre Langelier. 
Dearborn’s Seedling, Doyenne d’Ete, Easter 
Beurre, Glout Morceau, Gray Doyenne, Kirt- 
land, Louise Bonne de Jersey 7 , Marie Louise, 
Napoleon, Rostiezer, Stevens’s Genesee, Tyson, 
Urbaniste, White Doyenne, Reaches. Best— 
Hale’s Early, Heath Cling, Oldmixon Free and 
Cling, President, Smock, Troth’s Early, Good 
—Alexander, Bergen’s Yellow, Cole’s Early 
Red, Crawford’s Early and Late, Early Tillot¬ 
son, Early York, Grosse Mignonne, Kenrick’s 
Ileath, La Grange, Lemon Cling, Morris’s 
White, Snow, Stump the World, Ward’s Late 
Free, Yellow Rarei-ipe. Plums.— Bleeker’s 
Gage, Bradshaw, Chickasaw, Coe’s Golden 
Drop, Damson, Duane’s Purple, German 
Prune, Green Gage, Imperial Gage, Jefferson, 
Lombard, McLaughlin. Prince’s Yellow Gage, 
Smith’s Orleaus, Washington, Wild Goose. 
Cherries. Best. —Early Richmond, Mofillo, 
Good —Arch Duke. Belle Maguifique, Belle de 
Choisy-, Black Eagle, Black Tartarian, Carna¬ 
tion, Elton, Late Duke, May Duke, Napoleon^ 
Reine Hortense. Currants, Black Naples, La 
Versaillaise, Red Dutch, Red Grape. Grapes 
Best —Concord, Ives. Good— Adirondac, Aga¬ 
wam, Brighton, Catawba, Clinton, Cynthiana, 
Delaware, Goethe, Iona, Isabella, Massasoit, 
Martha, Wilder. Raspberries. Best—Am. 
Black, Mammoth Cluster, Good —Philadel¬ 
phia, Turner. Blackberries. —Kittatinny, 
Snyder, Wilson’s Early, Strawberries, Best 
—Green Prolific, Wilson. Good— Chas. Down¬ 
ing, Kentucky, Longworth’s Prolific, Nicanor, 
IOWA. 
Apples.— Best— Benoni, Cole’s Quince, Do¬ 
minie, Duchess of Oldenburg, Dyer, Edgar 
Red Streak, Fallawater, Grimes’s Golden, Jon¬ 
athan, Lowell, Maiden’s Blush, Rawle’s Genet, 
Red Stripe, Sops of Wine, Wealthy. Willow 
Twig, Winesap. Good— AlersonV Early, Bai¬ 
ley Sweet, Ben Davis, Bullock’s Pippin, Car¬ 
olina Red June, Cogswell, Cracking, Early 
Harvest, Early Joe, Fall Pippin, Fall Wine, 
Fameuse, Gilpin, Goff, Golden Sweet, Haw¬ 
thornden, Hightop Sweet, Horse, Jersey 
Sweet, Keswick Codlin,, King of Tomkins Co., 
Lady Apple, Late Strawberry, Mother, Peck’s 
Pleasant, Pewaukee, Porter, Ramsdell’s Sweet, 
Red Astrachan, Roman Stem, Rome Beauty, 
St. Lawrence, Smokehouse, Summer Rose, 
Sweet Pear, Tetofsky, Talman’sSweet, Town¬ 
send, Wagener, Westfield Seek DO-Fnrther, 
White Pippin, Williams’s Favorite, Yellow 
Bellefleur. Pears. Rest—Bartlett, Beurre 
d’Anjou, Duchesse d'Angouleme, Flemish 
Beauty, Howell, Lawrence. Good— Belle Lu¬ 
crative, Beurre Bose, Beurre Clairgeau, 
Beurre Diel, Beurre Giffard, Bloogood, Buf- 
fum, Clapp’s Favorite, Dearborn’s Seedling, 
Easter Beurre, Hosenschenck, Louise Bonne 
de Jersey, Madeleine, Napoleon, Onondaga, 
Rostiezer, Seckel, Sheldon, Tyson, White Doy¬ 
enne. PEAcnKS. Best —Stump the World. 
Good’ —Bergen’s Yellow. Plums.— Bleeker’s 
Gage, Bradshaw, Coe’s Golden Drop, Colum¬ 
bia, Damson, Jefferson, Lombard, Miner, 
Prince’s Yellow Gage, Smith’s Orleans, Wild 
Goose, Cherries.— Best— Early Richmond, 
Late Kentish, Morello. Good —Belle Magni¬ 
fique, Bt.dk de Choisy. Currants.— Cherry, 
La Versaillaise, Red Dutch, White Dutch, 
White Grape, Victoria. Grapes. — Best — 
Concord, Delaware, Hartford Prolific, Ives. 
Good —Clinton, Norton’s Virginia, Telegraph. 
Raspberries. —American Black, Mammoth 
Cluster, Philadelphia, Turner. Blackber¬ 
ries. —Kittatinny, Wilson’s Early. Straw¬ 
berries.— Best —Green Prolific, Wilson’s Al¬ 
bany. Good—Chas. Downing, Downer’s Pro¬ 
lific, Kentucky. 
Special Fruit List for Iowa. 
For the northern part of the State the fol¬ 
lowing apples are recommended: Summer. — 
Red Astrachan, Oldenburg, Cole’s Quince, 
Autumn. -Gros Pommier, Plumb’s Cider Weal¬ 
thy, Utter’s Red. Winter. — Wallbridge, 
English Golden Russet, Fameuse, Talman’s 
Sweet. 
For the central district the following apples 
are recommended: Summer. —Red June, 
Early Harvest, Oldenburg, Williams’s Favor¬ 
ite, Red Astrachan, Early Pennock, Benoni, 
Sops of Wine. Autumn. — Cole's Quince, 
Lowell, Autumn Strawberry, Dyur, Porter, 
Fameuse. Winter. —Jonathan, Winesap, 
Ben Davis, Rawle’s Genet, Willow, Dominie, 
Grimes’s Golden, Fulton, White Winter Pear- 
rnaiu, Paradise,Winter Sweet,Talman’s Sweet 
and Wagener. For this district the following 
cherries are favorably mentioned: Early 
Richmond, Late Kentish, Euglish Morello. 
Of plums, the Lombard, and of grapes, Con¬ 
cord, Hartford Prolific, Clinton and Dela¬ 
ware. Pears. — Flemish Beauty, Bartlett, 
Duchesse aud Seckel. None of these varieties 
are, however, reliable. 
For ihe Southern district the following list 
of apples is presented: Summer and Fall. — 
Early Joe, Oldenburg, Red Astrachan, Early 
Harvest, Dyer, Fameuse, Lowell, Maiden’s 
Blush, Mother, Rarnbo aud Wealthy. Win¬ 
ter, —Ben Davis, Dominie, Grimes’s Golden, 
Jonathan, R.awle’s Genet, Winesap, Wagener, 
White Pippin and Roman Stem. Featc,— 
Bartlett, Beurre d’Anjou, Belle Lucrative, 
Flemish Beauty, Clapp’s Favorite, Seckel, 
White Doyenne, Sheldon. 
Among grapes, Concord, Moore’s Early, 
Delaware, Lady, Ives, Rogers’s No. 4, 13 and 
19 are commended, J. l. b. 
Ames, la. 
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NEVADA. 
Apples —Ben Davis, Golden Sweet, Wine¬ 
sap. 
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UTAH. 
Apples. Ben Davis, Carolina Red June, 
Danver’s Winter Sweet, Dominie, Dutch 
Mignonne, Early Harvest, Euglish Russet, 
Fallawater, Fall Wine, Fameuse, Gilpin, 
Graveustein, Hawthornden, Hubbardston 
Nonsuch, Jonathan, King of Tompkins Co, 
Lady’s Sweet, Maiden’s Blush, Milam, New¬ 
town Pippin, Northern Spy, Porter, Primate, 
Red Astrachan, R. I. Greening. Pears. Bart¬ 
lett, Beurre d’Anjou, Beurre Diel, Bloodgood, 
Brandywine, Buffuiu, Doyenne d’Ete, Flemish 
Beauty, Howell, Louise Bonne de Jersey, 
Seckel, (best) Winter Nelis. Peaches— Chinese 
Cling, Columbia, Crawford’s Early and Late, 
Early Tillotson, Grosse Mignonne, Heath 
Cling, Smock,Troth’s Early, Yellow Rareripe, 
Plums. —Bradshaw, Coe’s G-oUlen Drop, Dam¬ 
son, Duane’s Purple, Green Gage, Imperial, 
Gage, Jefferson- Blackberries.— Kittatinny, 
Lawton, Wilson's Early. Cherries,— Arch 
Duke, Belle de Choisy, Black Eagle, Black 
Republican. Currants — Cherry, Fertile 
d’Angers, La Versaillaise, Victoria. Grapes. 
—Catawba, Delaware, Hartford Prolific, Iona ( 
Ives, Raspberries— Fastolff, Franconia, 
Mammoth Cluster, Philadelphia. Straw¬ 
berries,— Agriculturist, Downer’s Prolific, 
Green Prolific, Hovey’s Seedling, Longworth’s 
Prolific, Wilson. 
Newtown Pippin, Peck’s Pleasant, Yellow 
Bellefleur, Good —Alexander, Autumnal 
Swaar, Ben Davis, Broadwell, Buckingham, 
Carolina Red June, Dutch Mignonne, Early 
Harvest, Fall W T ine, Fameuse, Golden Sweet, 
Graveustein, Hawthorudeu, Holly, Hubbard¬ 
ston Nonsuch, Jonathan, Lady Sweet, Lowell, 
Maiden’s Blush, Mother, Newtown Spitzen- 
burg, Porter, Primate, Rarnbo, Red Astrachan^ 
Roxbury Russet, Townsend, Twenty Ounce, 
Wagener, Wine, Winesap, Fears. Best — 
Bartlett, Beurre Clairgeau, Beurre Hardy, 
Doyenne d’Alencon, Duchesse d’Angouleme* 
Easter Beurre, Flemish Beauty. Seckel, 
Stevens’s Genesee, Winter Nell?, Good Belle 
Lucrative, Beurre Did, Beurre Giffard, Blood 
good, Brandywine, Bulfum, Catillac, Doyenne 
Boussock, Glout Morceau, Henkel, llowelb 
Lawrence, Passe Colmar, Pound, Rostiezer, 
Sheldon, Tyson, Urbaniste, White Doyenne. 
Plums. Best— Coe’s Golden Drop, Columbia, 
Imperial Gage, McLaughlin, Prime d’Agen, 
Royale Hative, Good —Bavay’s Green Gage, 
Bradshaw, Damson, German Prune, Huling’s 
Superb, Italian Prune, Jefferson, Lombard, 
Peaches. Best —Brjgg’s May, Cole’s Early 
Red, Crawford’s Early, George the Fourth, 
Grosse Mignonne, La Grange, Oldmixon Free 
and Cling, Slump the World, Ward’s Late 
Free, White Imperial. Good —Coolidge’s 
Favorite, Crawford’s Late, Early York, Hule’s 
Early, Lemon Cling, Malta, Smock, Straw¬ 
berry, Troth's Early, Yellow Rareripe. 
Blackberries. Best —Kittatinny, Wilson's 
Early. Good —Dorchester, Lawton. Cherries. 
Best —Bigarreau of Mezel, Black Tartarian, 
Napoleon. Good —Arch Duke, Belle de Choisy, 
Bigarreau, Black Eagle, Coe’s Transparent, 
Downer’s Late, Early Richrno id, Hovey, Red 
Jacket, Reine Hortense,Teuumseh. Currants. 
Best —Common Black, Fertile de Palluau. 
Good —Black Naples, Cherry, La Versaillaise, 
Red Dutch,Red Grape, White Grape, Victoria, 
Strawberries —Longworth’s Prolific, Tri- 
ornphe de Gaud, Wilson. 
MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 
CALIFORNIA. 
Apples. Best— Duchess of Oldenburg, Early 
Straw berry, Esopus Spitzenburg, Fall Pippin, 
Dwarf Pears —Special Collection of 
Pears for Cultivation on the Quince.— 
The following varieties are particularly rec¬ 
ommended by Ellwauger & Barry for culti¬ 
vation on the quince. All are vigorous and 
handsome growers, hardy and bear well: 
Summer—Beurre Giffard, Brandywine, Ty¬ 
son, Osband's Summer, Clapp’s Favorite. 
Autumn—Belle Lucrative, Urbaniste, Duch¬ 
esse d’Angouleme, Beurre d’Aojou, Doyenne 
Boussock, Beurre Diel, Buffum, Beurre Lang¬ 
elier, White Doyenne, Beurre Super fin, Louise 
Bonne de Jersey, Howell. 
Winter—Easter Beurre, Glout Morceau, 
Vicar of Wink field, Doyenne d’Alencon, Law¬ 
rence, Josephine de Malines. 
—Peaches. —There is really no secret about 
growing peaches, and very nearly all the fail¬ 
ures, aud they are many, may be attributed 
to neglect and inattention to the simple needs 
of the tree during the first two or three years. 
The main point, says Josiah Hoopes, an excel¬ 
lent authority, in the N. V. Tribune, is to se¬ 
cure a strong, healthy growth at first, as it is 
impossible to grow good fruit on weak trees. 
It has been customary in some sections to use 
thin, worn-out soils for the poach orchard, for 
no other reason than that of exj ediency, be¬ 
cause other crops would not succeed there. 
This is all wrong. 
—Another important matter in connection 
with peach planting is that of priming. As 
many of our orcliardists neglect this duty 
mainly because they fancy it disfigures the 
form of their handsome young trees, it is as 
well to lay particular stress upon the absolute 
necessity of the operation. 
—Previous to setting yearling trees (and no 
other age should be used), all branches ought 
to be cut well back to the main stem, and the 
leading shoot receive a severe heading-in as 
well. Some of our cultivators even cut off alj 
the branches, leaving only a straight stem, 
but perhaps it is as well to allow a short spur, 
of, say, from si x to ten inches, to remain, which 
will furnish sufficient buds to form a fine top 
in one season. Every tree-planter is aware 
of the necessity of removing all broken and 
bruised roots, as a clean cut with a sharp 
knife is much more readily healed than a torn, 
ragned surface ; the latter being frequently 
the cause of disease in some way. 
—The proper manure for the peach, all things 
considered, is a compost formed of old rotted 
sods from fence corners, etc,, wifh good, rich 
barnyard manuie, thoroughly mixed, and 
allowed to stand at least six months before 
u*ing. Muck from an old swamp makes an 
excellent basis for such a compound, and a 
sprinkling of salt adds to Its fertilizing pro¬ 
perties. An occasional application of lime 
and potash (uuleaehed wood ashes where ob¬ 
tainable) is exceedingly beneficial to peach 
trees; and if pure and of high grade, super¬ 
phosphate of lime answers a good purpose. 
The penurious cultivator who begrudges even. 
