. Cyclopedia of American horticulture : comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening; Horticulture; Horticulture; Horticulture. 1228 PEACH as Crawford (Fig. lflC4), Oldmixon, Salway, and the like. The varieties of Peaches are many, although less numerous than those of apples. An inventory of 73 catalogues of American nurserymen, in 1900, showed 291 varieties on the market. The Peach is a showy
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture : comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening; Horticulture; Horticulture; Horticulture. 1228 PEACH as Crawford (Fig. lflC4), Oldmixon, Salway, and the like. The varieties of Peaches are many, although less numerous than those of apples. An inventory of 73 catalogues of American nurserymen, in 1900, showed 291 varieties on the market. The Peach is a showy tree when in bloom. There are double-flowered vaiietics (Fig. lOfra), which are as. Peen-to Peach handsome as the dwarf flowering aliiioinl. and thev are more showy because of the greater size of the 'tree. These double - flowered varieties have never become popular, however, owing to risks of winter injury and spring frosts, depredation of borers, and the short sea- son in which they remain in bloom. The flowers of the Peach are naturally variable in both size and color. Peach-growers are aware that there are small-flowered and large - flowered varieties. The character of the flower is as characteristic of the variety as size or color of fruit is. Fig. 1666 shows two extremes. The Craw- fords are small-flowered ; the Alexander and Amsden are large flowered. Propagation. —Tbe Peach is always propagated by means of seeds. The first year the seedlings are budded to the desired variety. The seed is planted on the first opening of spring in rows far enough apart to allow of horse tillage, and the seeds are dropped every 6 to 8 inches in the row. These seeds should have been kept moist during the winter. Usually they are piled out of doors, being mixed with sand or gravel, and al- lowed to freeze. The shells are then soft when plant- ing time arrives and many of the pits will be split. Then it will not be necessary to crack the pits. In the northern states the trees will be ready
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