Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-06-10
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sEzDx.xHas VS.. BuDDEO PEACH
TREES.

A very general impression prevails among
the country people hat seeding peaches are
more hardy than those pTepagated by budding
This is true, though it is net true IN the sense
in which it is gen rally received.
An varieties of the peach now propagated
by budding or grating were once seedlings, but
the fruit of these are no more liable to be kill
ed by frost, than the fruit on the original seed
lines from which the present stock OF budded
trees have descended. The process OF bud
ding in no way changes the character OF the
variety budded, either for hardness or other
wise.
1t is said that the peach in its present state,
was improved from the bitter almond. This
improvement is tlae result of cultivation, eros
sing and hybidrization. That delicious portion
we call the fruit-the pulp-is merely the en-
velop or covering nature has provided for the
protection of the seed the original design of
it was the perpetuation of the species-and
hence the vital force is directed to this end and
the seed is consequently fully developed, and
the product is hardy; and those varieties that
are least removed from the original type are the
most hardy. But, as we have said the i'm
provement in the peach, as in all other fruits,
is the result of art-just SO far then as the fruit
Is lmQEOV0Q dl0 TCnOfCu HUN III toS u Ao
ture, just in that proportion is it at the ex-
pense of the hardness of the variety.
This fact too, holds good throughout all the
departments of animated nature, as well as in
the vegetable kingdom. Compare the native
Indian with the present cultivated races Of
mankind, also, our races of domestic animals
with those in the state of nature-how differ
= ent is their character for hardness! But
there is one characteristic of the peach that
must be taken into consideration in this con
snection and that is the power of the different
varieties of the peach to withstand the effects
of cold according to the character of the bios
som. Some varieties, and his is generally
true with many of the seedlings we find in the
country, have large blossoms, the petals o.
which afford a thicker covering to the embryo
fruit, and hence this class is the most hardy
generally; while those kinds with smaller bios
SONS are more tender, and others are still more
so where the petals stand out, or in other word;
the blossom is the least cupped
It is only the improved kinds that are found
most desirable to perpetuate by budding
these have become tender because they are i'm
proved and farther removed from the state o
NATURE, but none are more tender, because the,
q have been propagated by the artificial process o
budding.
In our extremely variable climate, we by NJ
means condemn the propagation of seeding
peaches. 1t should be p~racticed to a create
extent than it is, but with more care and cal
.kculation- The yellow feshed peaches can b
depended on, with more certainty to produc
their kind, than the white-leshed peaches ger
orally. In selecting seed, then, to plant, the
Esheuld be from the best of those kinds tina
have large blossoms, as well as others mos
hardy with smaller cupped blossoms In som
Instances the seedlings may be superior to tn
parent in more, they may be of equality
while a large portion may be inferior. But a
the inferior peaches are most hardy, these ma
afford US a crop, while the Others that are but
ded varieties entirely fail-so that where land
81 cheap in favorable situations, and the peach
cultivated extensively, we would advise that
PARTON of seeding peach tress be planted, bu
care should be taken in the selection of Ii
seed from none but the most improved varie
ties.-Vauey Farmer.