Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1835-06-18
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CULTIVATION OF rnE rEACu TREE.

CtLrNAtloS OF rHE FEACu TREE.
The following method of cutvaling Peach
Trees, with view 10 prevent their premature de-
cay, was communicated, in paper on the subject,
TO the .tmc,icda Philosophical Socnfv, BY Thorn
as Coulter, Esq, of Bedford county, Pa. The
propricty of the culture has been confirmed, the
author says, by experience of fort, five years
IN the state OF Delaware and the western part of
pcm>Nlvania:
" he death oil Young peach trees is principally
OWING To planting, trans planting and pruning OF the
same stack, which occasions it To be- open and ten
der, with rough bark in consequence of which
insects lodge and breed in il, and birds search al
ter them, whereby wound, made the gum e>-
udcS, aud IN u lew Wears the tree is useless To
prevent tins, transplant Your trees Young rs pos
sihic. II IN the kernel will be best there III be
no check of growth. Plant them sixteen feet a
part. Plough aud harrow them, but avoid tear
ing PhN the roots. In the month of March or
April, in the third year OF ran>plantine, cut them
OF by the ground, plough aud harrow among them
Is be ore, but with great care 10 avoid wnundinp
them Suffer all the sprouts or >cions To erou
even ilthcy should amount To halta dozen or more
they become bearing trees almost instantaneous
lv, on account OF the strength of the root. Allow
no ANIMALS but hogs 10 enter N.ur orchard Tor fear
Of their woundne the shoots asa substance drains
the health of the tree aud the good quality OF the
fruit.
II the old stock is cut away the third year after
tran>plant'nc, no more shoots will come to mat,,-
rity than the old stump can support and nourish IN,
remainder will die before they produce fruit and
may be cut away Take care and not wound any
other stock; the sprouts when loaded with fruit,
viii bend and rest the ground in every direction
Tor many years all OF them being rooted as if they
had been planted, their stocks remaining tough and
their bark smooth, for twenty years and upwards
In any OF the >prout, from the old stump should
happen to split off and die, cut them away ; they
will be supplied from the ground by others so that
You may have trees from the stump for one hum
bred wears as believe. | have now trees from
one to thrty-SiN years old all from the same stump.
Young trees, formed in this manner, will bear
fruit the second year, but this fruit will not ripcn
so early the fruit on the older trees from the same
stump. Three Years after the trees are cut Off the
shoots will be sufficiently large and bushy to shade
the ground 50 To prevent the growth OF grass that
might 'nlure the trees therefore ploughing will be
useless and may be injurious by wounding them.
1t Is also unnecessary 10 manure peach trees as
the fruit OF manfred trees is always smaller and in
ferior 10 that of trees that are not MANFRED b.,
mannrng YOU make the peach trees larecr and an
parcnty more douri>hinc, but their fruit will be of
bad KIND ioohin' green as the leaves, even
when ripe, and Later than that of the trees which
have not hcca MANFRED. Peach trees acycr re-
qurc rich soil the poorer the sol! the better the
t'oit a mddiing soil produces the most bountiiu
crop. The highest ground is The best for peach
trees, and the north side of hills is the most desira-
bic, as IT rctards vegetation, and prevents the de-
structivc effects OF iross which in the month
OF April in PENNSYLVANIA