. 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; Horticulture; Horticulture; Horticulture. 1232 PEACH begin to swell, spray the trees with a solution con- taining 1 pound of copper sulfate to 25 gallons of water. (3) As soon as the fruit-huds begin to swell, spray the trees with Bordeaux mixture or copper car- bonate. Follow this by another spraying before t
. 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; Horticulture; Horticulture; Horticulture. 1232 PEACH begin to swell, spray the trees with a solution con- taining 1 pound of copper sulfate to 25 gallons of water. (3) As soon as the fruit-huds 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 American books on the Peach. Three works have been published: Fulton's "Peach Culture," 1870, newediti- and Diseases of the Pi;i' Willcox's "Peach Cultui There are several excellcni on the Peach. See also. I Peach Guitarist,"and Black l?i, â¢The Cultu â¢. Pa., 1880; X. J., 1886. rion bulletins II Apple and . of the Peach and the Pear on the Delaware and Chesapeake Penin- sula-" L. H. B. Peach Culture IN THE South (Fie. M^T^^ - ;ir-hes have been abundant in the southern si; ^im , f 1,, \ .-ry earliest settlement, the so-called Si. .> i , . 1,^- ing first distributed by the early sfti I ,. ;ind to this day, all through the South i - i hr did "Spanish ; or "Tinsley" Peach, is spukin of as one of the choice fruits of the earth. From time to time all the improved varieties were scattered through the South by the more progressive horticulturists and nur- serymen, and these and their seedlings were abundant on nearly every
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