Deciduous Fruits For Home Consumption 
Prof. W. L. 
A home orchard containing a number 
of well selected varieties of fruit trees 
should have a place on every Florida 
farm, and a few trees may well be planted 
about our town and city homes, where if 
well placed and cared for, they will prove 
both useful and ornamental. Some that 
deserve a place in such plantings are the 
following: 
PEACHES. 
If one does not know how to bud or 
graft, he may grow some seedling trees, 
feeling reasonably sure they will bear 
edible fruit if grown from the fruit of 
trees of the locality. He will often get 
in this way trees that have more vig¬ 
or and longer life than budded ones, 
and occasionally one that bears fruit 
of especially fine quality; thus a 
new variety may originate. There is 
no better plant to try the operation of 
budding on than the peach. The seed 
may be planted in the fall and by 
the last of June of the following year 
will have produced stocks into which buds 
may be inserted. These will grow two 
or three feet before the end of the grow¬ 
ing season. So many farm journals, 
bulletins and books give directions and 
illustrations of budding that one may easi¬ 
ly get the necessary information as to 
how to do it. 
There are many varieties of peaches to 
Floyd 
select from, ripening from May to Octo¬ 
ber, though there is no variety of much 
value that does not ripen in May, June 
or July. Throughout the peninsular por¬ 
tion of the State it is best to plant only 
varieties from the Peento and Honey 
groups. The parent types of these have 
been introduced from China, and by cross¬ 
ing with those of Spanish origin already 
here, have given us such varieties as An¬ 
gel, Jewel, Imperial, Waldo and many 
others which are well adapted to Florida 
conditions. 
plums. 
There are not many varieties of plums 
that do well here. The Excelsior, a cross 
of which a native variety is one parent, is 
the most desirable one that I have tried. 
It is a strong grower, forms a shapely 
tree, and produces an abundance of fine 
flavored fruit. 
Plum roots are not attacked by the 
worms that cause root knot. These are 
quite prevalent in soil that has been long 
in cultivation, and attack the peach, caus¬ 
ing weakness, loss of vigor and unprofi¬ 
tableness, the cause of which is not readi¬ 
ly apparent. The best way to overcome 
this trouble is to plant peaches grafted on 
certain varieties of plum root. The Pasco 
county plum has proven most satisfac¬ 
tory. The peach should be grafted on 
this below the ground in order to secure 
