. 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 beein to swell, spray the trees with a solution coii- tainiug 1 puuiiil of copper sulfate to 25 gallons of water. (.!) 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
. 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 beein to swell, spray the trees with a solution coii- tainiug 1 puuiiil of copper sulfate to 25 gallons of water. (.!) 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. This 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 Amei-ican books on the Peach. Three works have been published: Fulton's "Peach Culture,"1870, iss't: Rân,-,--v "The and Diseases of the I'l â ^i ! I 11 â I';i Willcox's "Peach CuIum i: :,i ., \. .1 There are several exccll' 111 ' ; . , , i : iiUiHi i, on the Peach. See als,., I i.'- >-:ii1h in .\|, Peach Culturist," and Bhu-k's "Ciiltivatioii of tli and the Pear on the Delaware and Chesapeake ; Peach Culturr \s the South (Pis;. have been abundiint in the s<mthern states ^ill<â ^â i eai-liest settlement, llie so ealled Spani^li \:iri. ing first distribute.! tlie earlv settlers in IImi to this day, all tlmnigii the South Atlantir â "Spanish ; or "Tinsley" Peach, is one of the choice fruits of the earth. From time all the improved varieties were scattered iln-e South by the more progressive horticulturists a serymen, and thes,. their serdlinu's wn,. al. style of shipping fruit placed betw
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