The Delaware register, or, Farmers', manufacturers' & mechanics' advocate. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1828-1829, 1829-07-25
AGRICULTURAL.
From the Trenton Federalistl
PEACH TREES.

trees, has been subject of deep speculation and much
inquiry for several years and yet persons have
very erroneous opinions relative to them, think
will be able to prove by the following
COMMUNICATION.
In 1890 being perfectly at LEISURE and having an ar
dent desire to see the peach become more common
fruit out orchard of hundred trees, resolved
10 devote the strictest attention to its prosperity;
usual it throye admirably for years, and in the
interim had borne two beautiful crops of fruit-the last
seeming to have completely exhausted it. II then
that the idea of the necessity of renoyatng the vgor
of the trees first occurred to me but by what means
was to attain that end was the important question.
knew, from experience, that it quite useless, as
many people in the practice of doing to put barn
yard manure round the roots yes, far than
less, has decided tendency, instead of invigora
ing the main roots, to cause thousand smaller ones
to shoot from them, which puts the larger ones, and
from which the tree receives its nourishment in COM
pete state of exhaustion. knew, in fact, il de-
leerious, and therefore applied it much better pur
pose in putting it on my cornfeld. now applied at
tentvey to chemistry, and agricultural disqusitions
but in all my researches could not meet with any thing
relative thereto that accorded with my views
another year passed round and my trees looked much
worse than they did the previous year. The roots
repete with worms, and in many instances they had
completely grded the principal ones. will now make
few observations concerning that harmless little
to which has been so uniustly imputed the devas
commonly found in unhealthy peach orchards. Now
do most unequivocay believe that they never caused
the decline of single tree what the decline
think will presently satisfactorily explain; it now
behooves to avert the sneers of those who set
tied in contrary belief: am of the opinions
existing this head, and it is my desire to supersede
them by others that will be snbservien to combining
luxury with real utility
For the first three years, / could not in my whole
orchard find single worm: after that, and when it
began to BEAR and consequently to diminish in Yigor
found few, and even these languid and scarce
y able to STIR owing to the yet too strong gallo acid
of the roots but after it had borne the second year,
they increased beyond all proportion Nov think
that sufficiently proves that the decline is owing in
great measure to lack of nourishment, and not
ny believe, to the encroachment of the worm-they
merely eat were, the diseased of the tree
will state, which believe to be the best plan
yet adopted, what answers exceedingly good pur-
pose to sustain that noUrishment and give the trees
power TO repel the vain efforts of the fruit to check
them had almost despaired of my orchard after the
two crops thinking it too far gone to derive any ben
eft from all could do when by accident, with
which | will not trouble the reader, had my whole
orchard the next year in perfect state Of the most Wig
orous foliage; it was produced by composition Of
oyster shell lime and tan, equally proportioned and
about half bushel to tree, put Immediately round
the trunk, few inches under ground 1t has been
four years since began to serve mine in this manner
and had each of those years fine crop, and they
look thrifty they did when only three years
old. A.