
          164

According to the same writer, Mr. Kenrick, pp. 204-205,
the most extensive peach orchards he knows of belong to
Messrs. Ridgeway and Isaac Reeve, at Delaware City.  He says
they regularly thin out the fruit.  He add: "The prefer a
dry soil, light and friable on a foundation of clay, or
gravelly clay, a good but not a very rich soil.  Like all
other good cultivators, the whole land is always kept in 
cultivation.  For the first two or three years, corn is
raised in the orchard, but afterwards the trees are permitted
to occupy the whole ground, nothing being suffered to grow
beneath their shade, as this would rob the fruit of its 
nourishment.  In Delaware where the climate is warm and the
soil good, twenty feet asunder is the suitable distance recommended 
for the tree; while on the eastern of Atlantic side of
New Jersey sixteen or seventeen feet asunder is deemed sufficient
by some of their most experienced cultivators, on
good soils; while further north, on poorer soils, a less distance
will suffice."

According to J. J. Thomas, American Fruit Culturist,
Auburn, N.Y., Darby & Miller, 1853, peaches are sometimes
budded on plum to escape the borer. p. 279. Mr. Thomas also
        