Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1856-03-05
WHOLE NO. 1867.
Written for the chr0nisIs.
SEEDING PEACH TREES.
Nrwrox F FALLs, O., Feb, 1856.


Lovers of peaches would do well to
plant the seeds of all the good peaches
that they can secure. Query. Do you
mean to say 0Hs tha: is great many.
Yes, 1 mean al of the seeds, from az
good peaches. should be planted, and
the trees should be well cared for; and
if you should have more trees than you
wish to plant, you can divide with your
friends and neighbors. Query. But
there are SO many goodpeaches, we can't
plant them all Well, if you think they
are worthy of cultivation, plant them
but be careful and not cultivate second
rate arGcle. Nine-tenths of the peaches
n the country, are unworthy of cultiva-
;tion- Very few are good enough TO bs
styled third rate. Second rate peaches,
are supposed by many, to be the bestin
the known world, and first rate peaches
have been seen by but few. ens
Query. What kind of peaches do you
consider first rate? A peach deserving to
be called 6rst rate, is handsoms. large.
rich and pleasant, with avery small stone.
Some peaches that are deficient in some!of
these qualities. are worthy Of cultiva-
ton, on account Of some other valuable
peculiarity-such as early ripening, late
ripening, or productiveness. Carefully
raise trees from peaches that possess
the greatest number of good, qualities.
and you viii be a greater benefactOr Of
mankind, than all the lawyers in the
land.
Query. If / should plant seeds from
good peaches, would thetrees produce fruit
the same as the original? Generally
the fruit is ike the original, or if not just
the same. it will be similar. To answer
this query fully. more lengthy essay
would be required than am at present
inclined to write. Every variety Of trees,
or plant, naturally produces after its own
and the product would invariably be the
same as the original, were it not that
some other tree of different fruit, but Of
the same genus, stood near it when 10th
were in bloom, thus afording opportuity
for the wind and insects to carry the poll
len from each tree to the other, and con-
sequently adulterating the seed Of both.
The present fraH viii not be changed.
but the seeds, if adulterated. viii produce
trees bearing different fruit. If both
trees produce good fruit, then the trees
grown from their seeds, win produce
good fruit; but if one of the original
trees produces poor fruit, then the young
trees win be liable to produce poor
fruit. Plant the seeds of good peaches
that have grown on an isolated tree, or
in the midst of trees producing good
fruit, and you Hill be pleased with the
result. But if some of your trees should
produce inferior fruit, attend to them
without delay. Don't permit them to
bloom again. but speedily lay them in
the dust, that their ashes may aid in the
production of the best quality. s-a
Query. Why should / not dispense
with all this trouble, by procuring inocu-
lated trees? Inoculated trees are very
good, and you are sure Of good fruit;
but as general thing, they are neither
so hardy or so productive as seedlings.
Another reason is, that trees designed
for incubation are raised from inferior
fruit, and in few yearsthe top becomes
injured, and sprouts start from the stock
near the root, consequently your tree
becomes worse than useless eumberer
CT the ground. Also, inoculated trees
cannot always be obtained. Sometimes
drouth at the season of inoculating
renders the operation impIacticable.-
This was the case in 1853 and in 1854.
In 1856, the season was admirably adopt
cd to the successful performance of that
operation, but the extraordinary severi-
ty of the present winter, has in all prOba.
bility killed every bud that was set last
summer.
inoculated enough to supply my vi
cinity. and as the stock was grown from
common fruit, they are now only 6t to
be thrown out of the nursery. have
for the last fewyears planted all of the
good.seeds that I could procure, and I
will continue to do so. w. S. WEsr.