Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-03-19
PEACH TREES.

In the Marc number OF the Polyechnic Journal of
this city, we nd notice of important discovery in
Crafting peach trees by Professor CHARLES G. PAGE.
The number for the sake of articles which
are publishing in series; but permitted to an
nounce this yuabe information to the public in
for gardenerto make the experiment upon stocks this
month.
Important Ptscouery IN Grating tie Peach Tree
BY PBF. cHAs G. PAGE, ID, WASHINGTON.
1t is amo$ universal practice with gardeners to bud
the peach tI and in nearly all treatises upon peach
culture budng is recommended in place of grating and
grating is ken of impractcabe In the year 1889
my attention was first turned to this subject An old
farmer Of Hrfax county, Virginia, who boasted Of his
skill in graftg, informed me that he grated
hundred pedh and failed in every Upon try
ing the expSiment upon single tree and with the ut
most care Ihiled aso and what appeared to me to
be the true duse. NV mind at that time being familiar
with surgical subjects, remembered that after wound
or incision ws made adhesion would not take place as
long the bod flowed discharge kept up that
codguum NUT be formed before union could be effected
that where tie circulating vessels too active forc
bic, ligaturesor mechanical means employed to d
minsh the free of circulation There appeared to me
to be close parallel between the conditions and practice
in the surgc& case and that of the peach tree.
The peach rec is Of very rapid growth and active
circulation. When ncsion is made the tree headed
down in the afting season. there is at once an opeo
of sap whenthe scion is inserted in any of the usual
ways, and the grating composition applied the exces-
sve flow Of e sap prevents the formation Of coagata
cais and bus inereres with the adhesion or union
between the stick and the scion graft THIS flowing
of the sap waste be stopped and several ways suggested
themselves readily. The first to cut the tap root
This done by passing down long and sharp knife
and seyerng the root ut depth varying according to the
size of the refor large stocks going deeper than for
small The second to head the stocks down,
lift them from the ground cut the taproot and repant
the stocks inserting the CRAFTS either before or after the
planting Under both these modes of checking the cir
IL af
cleft aftng-took perfectly well. The proportion of
gratis succeeding with this treatment as great as
with apple trees have succeeded in grating IN
this way 10 The sonh q August and there i now upon
laS&saQa sikor6as peach tree Ia tbe fall pFme ot bear
ing wkzEk VAS grated in the summer Of 1889 There
cd IN the spring of 1889 which in fourishng an
healthy condition, and which are OF course near
fourteen old from the graft and fifteen years ror
the seed They look rather better than trees budde
in the year. but this difference is perhaps owing
! better treatment. remark may not be amss her
concerning the age of the peach tree 1t is not natural
very shcrved tree, as is generally represented an
believed The early failure of this tree in New Jerse
has probably given rise to this opinion, although il
that elsewhere the tree shares similar unde
unfayorabe circumstances. We have peach tree
here teet in diameter at the base of the trunk
ffty years old.
We will enlarge upon this subject in future numbe
of the Journal us have much yet to communicat,
upon the culture of this important fruit The philosophy
of the grating operation clear The cutting of the tap
root or general shortening Of the roots checks at once
the CIRCULATION of the sap and if the be still kept in
growing condition the cdltus will readily form, and the
graft take kindly THERE'S some advantage in being able
to graft this tree although it buds easily and during
SO long season. Frequently in this region from the mid
die Of June to the last Of September The grated tres
is earlier in fruit and in budding fails the stocks
may answer for CRAFTS in the spring.
| HermJstaafs Recipe TO Care Diseased Trees.
If the tree has only few roots and indeed almost only
ton root without the small dew secondary roots let
be rinsed first in water and the root far possible
be ceansed from the earth wrapped round with
old woolIen rag, and made pretty fast with thread
tyine Old frieze old woollen stocking is the mos
convenient this purpose Then let the tree be plant
ed mostened and secured by stake and bands agains
the motion Of the Winds and let it be left to nature