. Descriptive catalogue of select fruit and ornamental trees : grape vines, small fruits, flowering plants, Nurseries (Horticulture), Pennsylvania, Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental, Catalogs; Fruit-culture, Catalogs. i6 Rakestraw & Pyles Catalogue. during the months of July and August. They deposit their eggs in the bark of the tree at the surface of the soil. In the month of September the soil that was mounded around the trunk of the tree is removed, and the small -worm hatched out during July and August from the eggs deposited is ; A peck of leached ashes to each tree wi
. Descriptive catalogue of select fruit and ornamental trees : grape vines, small fruits, flowering plants, Nurseries (Horticulture), Pennsylvania, Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental, Catalogs; Fruit-culture, Catalogs. i6 Rakestraw & Pyles Catalogue. during the months of July and August. They deposit their eggs in the bark of the tree at the surface of the soil. In the month of September the soil that was mounded around the trunk of the tree is removed, and the small -worm hatched out during July and August from the eggs deposited is ; A peck of leached ashes to each tree will be found quite an assistant in destroying them, and, if applied immediately after the trees are planted, it is claimed by some to be an effectual preventive. We have fully appreciated the importance of budding peach trees from healthy stock, and growing the plants for budding from seed raised from healthy trees from dis- tricts not infected with disease. We have discarded those varieties which do not com- bine all the requisite qualities of a profitable market fruit. The selection of varieties has been made with special reference to the quality and hardiness of the tree, and those that have proved the most profitable grown in largest quantities. The varieties under each heading are those ripening together, and the various ripenings cover the entire ELBEETA. RIPENING FIRST OF THE SEASON Alexander. One of the best of the extra early peaches; fruit medium size; color dark cricuson, almost purplish on the sun side; flesh juicy, sweet, fair quality; tree vigor- -4 ous and productive; ripe two weeks before Hale's Early. Middle of July. Amsden's June. Fruit medium, dark red on sun side; flesh greenish white, juicy, ^ melting and delicious; two weeks earlier than Hale's Early. Schumaker. Fruit medium to large, deep rich red; flesh white, very sweet, juicy and melting; a good shipper; stone very small for so large a peach; ripens a few days before Alexander. Plea
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