. Descriptive catalogue : trees plants Trees Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Commercial catalogs Texas Fort Worth; Trees; Flowers; Vegetables; Commercial catalogs. 4 BAKER FORT WORTH, TEXAS. Pe&cbes. Peaches are everywhere recognized as the leading fruit for Texas. We sell more Peach trees than all other fruit trees combined. They will grow and bear in any soil, from Brownsville to the Pan Handle, arid from Texarkana to El Paso, in sand, clay, black waxy or gravelly soil, and on solid rock, almost. You may gather good Peaches from May till December, ex
. Descriptive catalogue : trees plants Trees Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Commercial catalogs Texas Fort Worth; Trees; Flowers; Vegetables; Commercial catalogs. 4 BAKER FORT WORTH, TEXAS. Pe&cbes. Peaches are everywhere recognized as the leading fruit for Texas. We sell more Peach trees than all other fruit trees combined. They will grow and bear in any soil, from Brownsville to the Pan Handle, arid from Texarkana to El Paso, in sand, clay, black waxy or gravelly soil, and on solid rock, almost. You may gather good Peaches from May till December, excelling in size, color and flavor those grown in any other state. In ordinary soil set the trees 14 to 16 feet apart each way. In very rich soil they re- quire more room. To secure healthy, vigorous and fruitful trees and fine fruit, the following points must be well attended to in Peach culture : 1st. Keep the ground clean and mellow around the tree, and give it an occasional dressing of wood ashes. 2nd. Keep the head low ; the trunk ought not to exceed threefeet in height. 3rd. Attend regularly every spring to pruning and shortening the shoots of the previous year's growth. This keeps the head round, full and well furnish- ed with bearing wood. Cut weak shoots back about one-half, and strong ones one- third ; but see that you have a sufficient supply of fruit buds. Sickly and super- fluous shoots should be cut clean out. the crosby peach. It should alzvays be borne in mind that the fruit is produced on wood of the last season's grozvth, and hence the necessity for keeping up a good supply of vigorous annual shoots all over the tree. Note.—In planting Peaches, it is of the highest importance to cut back the trees severely. The stem should be reduced about one-third and the side branches cut back to one bud. This lessens the demand upon the roots, and enables the remaining buds to push more vigorously. Most failures in newly planted orchards may be ascribed to a non-observanc
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