Prime facts for the farmer, the fruit grower, and the public : furnished by John Forman, Esq., farmer and nurseryman, Western New-York . at the worm or other insect, bark thetree and bore it, and even kill it at the ground, new shootswill immediately spring up from the safely bedded root,strong and full of health, and thus keep the orchard stockin good condition. 2. In the spring, next following the planting of the orch-ard, each tree must be cut off at the ground. Then, fromthe root or stump thus left in the earth, fresh sprouts willsoon shoot up, as in the subjoined cut, and these are to for
Prime facts for the farmer, the fruit grower, and the public : furnished by John Forman, Esq., farmer and nurseryman, Western New-York . at the worm or other insect, bark thetree and bore it, and even kill it at the ground, new shootswill immediately spring up from the safely bedded root,strong and full of health, and thus keep the orchard stockin good condition. 2. In the spring, next following the planting of the orch-ard, each tree must be cut off at the ground. Then, fromthe root or stump thus left in the earth, fresh sprouts willsoon shoot up, as in the subjoined cut, and these are to formthe future peach tree. The thrifty stems severed from the stump, may, if takenoff at the swell of the leaf bud, be separated into slips ofabout ten or twelve inches in length, and planted some eight PACT NUMBER THREE. 53 or ten inches deep in the earth, leaving simply a fair sproutingspace above the surface. These slips, if the ground be rich,fine, compact, and kindly disposed, will also sprout and growforming roots downward, and shoots upward, and this too,as experience teaches, in six or eight cases, as an average, inevery THE RENOVATED PEACH TREE. f)i FACT NUMBER THREE. The same course has been pursued with strongly thrivingbranches, or suckers, taken from any healthy peach tree,and fine fruit has been thus propagated at a very rapid rate,and small expense. But let it be observed, that, in all casesof this kind, much of the chance of success, depends on theseason, the condition of the slip as to the state of the sap, &c,and the care and judgment employed in the operation of plant-ing, &c, for it must be remembered, that the Peach Tree isone of the most delicate and difficult plants to manage thatbelongs to our list of fruit trees ; in fact its true character andtrue training, seem to have baffled all common place philo-sophy. 3. The sprouts springing from the deeply grounded root,and forming the Peach Tree, are all held in an upright andfamily-like position, by the bo
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