. 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. 1232 PEACH PEACH bee:in to swell, spray the trees with a solution cou- taiiiing 1 pouml of copper sulfate to 25 gallons of water. (S) As soon as the fruit-buds begin to swell, spray the trees with Bordeaux mixture or copper car- bonate. Follow this by another spraying before the buds open. (4) As soon as the fr
. 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. 1232 PEACH PEACH bee:in to swell, spray the trees with a solution cou- taiiiing 1 pouml of copper sulfate to 25 gallons of water. (S) As soon as the fruit-buds begin to swell, spray the trees with Bordeaux mixture or copper car- bonate. Follow this by another spraying before the buds open. (4) As soon as the fruit shall have reached full size, make a third application. Tliis may be fol- lowed by two or three applications at intervals of five or seven days during the ripening period. It will proba- bly not be often necessary to make more than one late application. Thorough thinning of the fruit is a good preventive of the spread of the rot. There are no up-to-date American books on the Peach. Three works have been published: Fulton's "Peacli Culture," 1870, new edition, 1889; Rutter's "The Culture and Diseases of the Peach," Harrisburg, Pa., 1880; Willcox's "Peach Culture," Bridgeton. N. J., 188G. There are several excellent experiment station bulletins on the Peach. See also, Fitz's "Southern Apple and Peach Culturist," and Black's "Cultivation of the Peach and the Pear on the Delaware and Chesapeake Penin- sula-" L. H. B. Peach Culture in the South (Fig. 1G77). —Peaches have been abundant in the southern states since the very earliest settlement, the so-called S])anish varieties be- ing first distributed by the early settlers in Florida, and to this day, all through the South Atlantic states the old "Spanish ; or "Tiusley" Peach, is spoken of as one of the choice fruits of the earth. From time to time all the improved varieties were scattered tlirough the South by the more progressive horticulturists and n
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