. Biggle orchard book : fruit and orchard gleanings from bough to basket. Fruit-culture. Chapter XII. THE PEACH. A farm without some peach trees is like m ilk without cream.—Tim. The peach is not a native of America. Probably the peach originated in China; from thence it went to Persia and to Europe. Propagation. — Bud known varieties on to seedling peach stocks, close to the ground. A thrifty tree one year from the bud is the right size to set. When buying trees, choose medium size, . „ . 1 i 41 FOUR HALF-POUND BEAUTIES straight ones ; let the big, overgrown fellows alone. (Note: Plums
. Biggle orchard book : fruit and orchard gleanings from bough to basket. Fruit-culture. Chapter XII. THE PEACH. A farm without some peach trees is like m ilk without cream.—Tim. The peach is not a native of America. Probably the peach originated in China; from thence it went to Persia and to Europe. Propagation. — Bud known varieties on to seedling peach stocks, close to the ground. A thrifty tree one year from the bud is the right size to set. When buying trees, choose medium size, . „ . 1 i 41 FOUR HALF-POUND BEAUTIES straight ones ; let the big, overgrown fellows alone. (Note: Plums are sometimes used for stocks, if the peach orchard must be planted on rather heavy, damp soil.) Varieties Which are Often Seef-Steriee.— Under this heading S. W. Eletcher lists only one kind of peach, viz.—the Susquehanna. Pruning.—Of all fruit trees the peach seems to need the most trimming (the dwarf pear is a close second in this respect). Each season the trees should be pruned — cutting them back and thinning them out, both. Cutting off one-half or two-thirds of the new growth each year, is not too much. Remember that the peach (unlike the C95). Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Biggle, Jacob. Philadelphia : W. Atkinson Co.
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