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American Agriculturist, April 19 , 1924 
Peaches, Old and New 
And Some Practices We Have Found Worth While 
TN fifty years of 
progress we have 
not vet been able to overcome the greatest 
risk of commercial peach-growing, which 
is crop failures, or partial crop failures, at 
least .50 per cent, of the time. For this 
reason peach production is too hazardous 
to be adopted as a main line. 
In fact, “over-specialization” is now 
By DAVID STONE KELSEY northerly rather 
than the reverse, 
and yet wind-breaks are almost a necessity 
upon high, bleak slopes. 
The planting season must be early fall 
or early spring. A late start in either 
season means the loss of one year in 
getting into the bearing, stage. Peach- 
trees planted in the fall must be mounded 
condemned as unwise in any orcharding heavily and the tops not cut back until 
growth starts in spring. In very cold 
and exposed sites, fall planting cannot be 
recommended. 
When used as fillers in setting other 
trees such as apples or pears, peaches 
may be set at the same time, and rela¬ 
tively carelessly, so long as the stock is 
vigorous and the buds not too much 
forced. Indeed it is recommended 
setting any peach orchard that 
other tree in every other row be 
apple, pear or cherry. 
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every 
an 
business. The well-balanced farmstead 
maintaining a few’ acres of orchard fruits, 
along with several other less hazardous 
lines — will in the long run outlive the one- 
crop orchard farm. 
What to Buy 
This spring there is the usual buzz of 
inquiry about what varieties to plant, 
what new varieties are promising, and so 
forth. As to the former question — the 
varieties to plant, may still be named in a 
very short list for the territory east of 
Ohio and north of the Mason-and-Dixon 
Line. The following are probably the 
safest commercially, both because of 
tried hardiness, and doing well on a wide 
variety of soils and exposures. 
The season named is for the latitude of 
northern New Jersey. In the Lake On¬ 
tario belt these will be about ten days 
later, and southern New Jersey, Dela¬ 
ware and parts of Pennsylvania, about a the chances are that ultimate pay for the 
week earlier: Greensboro, white-red, late ] a i K)r an( ] outlay will be found in the 
permanent orchard growing with them. 
Eliminates Big Risks 
Such a plan very largely discounts the 
real risk of commercial peach-growing. 
If the peaches do well you have harvested 
but three-fourths of the crop to be sure, 
but the moment the trees are removed 
you have a permanent orchard already 
growing and about ready to bear. If the 
peach orchard fails to make a profit, 
When writing to advertisers, be sure to 
mention the American Agriculturist 
July; Cdrman, white-red, middle August; 
Mountain Rose , white-red, late August; 
Belle of Georgia, white-red, early Septem¬ 
ber; Elberta, yellow, middle September; 
Hale, yellow, late September; Fox, white- 
red, early October. 
New Varieties 
Supplementing these may be named for 
mid-August, Hiley, and for late August, 
Gham'pion, both white-fleshed with red 
cheek; and to those who wish to experi¬ 
ment with less, tried but promising varie¬ 
ties the following may be safely recom¬ 
mended : Mayfloiver, said to be a far better 
than Greensboro; Lola, very promising, 
white-fleshed, just after Carman; Rochester, 
Crawford type, early mid-season; June 
Elberta, an earlier Elberta coming soon 
after the Rochester; Wilma, perhaps the 
best of the new and promising varieties 
under experiment at the Geneva Station, 
called larger, later and handsomer than 
Elberta. Berk’s and Allen are also 
worthy of trial, but are not yet considered 
commercially safe for all localities above 
mentioned. 
There is still a very wide field for ex- 
periment'and watching for promising new 
seedlings, especially for hardiness both for 
winter resistance and of early blossoming 
period. This trait (of too early blooming) 
in particular — inherited from its Asiatic 
ancestors — still makes peach-growing pre¬ 
carious except the environment is such as 
to retard its tendency to an early start. 
The amateur therefore will find the north¬ 
east slope a safer place to plant than the. 
warmer side of the hill. 
To Retard too Early Bloom 
Indeed if the commercial grower him¬ 
self could be more deeply impressed with 
the danger of this peculiar, predominant 
habit of the peach he would find ways of 
keeping the tree trunk and the ground 
beneath it cold and retarded, as late as 
possible every spring. 
This trait has stood directly in the way 
of that advance expected, in acclimation 
and hardiness, in 300 years’ growing here 
in America. Worse yet, about all the 
advances that have been made in the past 
twenty-five years have been in the direc¬ 
tion of “shipping quality.” The com¬ 
mercial peach of to-day is far drier, 
tougher and less palatable than that of 
forty years ago—the day of the Old 
Mixon and the Crawfords. 
The peach revels in rather light, loamy 
soil perfectly under-drained, perfectly 
surface-drained and carrying perfect air- 
drainage. The exposure should be 
Pruning the peach is relatively simple. 
Clean culture from the earliest day in 
April, when the soil is friable, with as 
much fertilizer as would insure a crop of 
corn is a safe rule. These harrowings 
should be suspended a little after mid- 
July, a cover-crop being sown with the 
last cultivation so that the tip buds may 
form early and become mature. 
When a crop of fruit once sets, however, 
fertilizing should be both heavy and 
special, particularly if there are evidences 
of an abnormal “June drop.” It is 
almost impossible to over-feed a peach- 
tree in full bearing, whereas an adult tree 
must not be fed at all during an off year. 
While it. is to be borne in mind that the 
fruits are each year produced upon the, 
previous year's growth, pruning—such as 
shearing back the whole top—is no more 
recommended. The surgery of trees like 
any other surgery' is for the unnormal, 
not the normal individual. 
Keep Heads Open 
To be sure the heads must be kept 
open and should be as low-branched as 
possible, down to within fifteen inches of 
the level land, where at least three 
scaffold branches should start. Again, 
if more than one off-season occurs, such 
two-years’ growth should he sharply 
sheared back if the drees are less than 
seven years old, yet this work should not 
be done until the end of the third winter 
shows plenty of promising fruit buds so that 
those which are cut off can safely be spared. 
Finally, there is one encouraging sign 
in the present peach development. Close 
students are beginning to observe and 
avail themselves of the tendency of all 
cultivated plants to bud variation. 
Watch for Bud Variation 
In our own grounds we have now under 
close observation no less than five 
varieties—known only by numbers-— 
which are all very promising. It would 
be a boon to all commercial fruit men 11 
peach-growers everywhere would take 
note, after every hard winter, of such 
trees as still promised and produced 
fruit. In some cases such ireaks will o 
course merely be the result of favorable 
local conditions, but at other times t it 
only way it can be accounted for is 111 
bud valuation, w'hiclx reduced to 1 ' 
lowest terms means that this Persian 
plant is really successfully struggling 0 
acclimate itself to our severer American 
climate. 
