Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1866-04-11
New WaH OF GroWing Peackes.

Inc following hlnts, IN THESE uays
of blasting frosts, may be turned to
good account, as suggestive Of a
manner of protection. They are
worthy of thought and imitation:
]. d. Sanborn of Vandalia, Ill, has
raised peaches in New Hampshire at
the rate of 600 bushels per acre, by
the following system: In defence of
the style of training detailed below,
Mr.. Sanborn says, that on the vast
elevated table lands of Western Asia,
the natural habitant of the peach,
travellers tell US that the plant that
produces this fruit is Of low, spread
ing bushy form ; and he believes the
yellows and other diseases that af1ict
the peach result from the unnatural
forcing of the sap to the great height
to which the trees grow with us.
Early next spring select the north
or west side of a hill, especially for
early varieties, or high dry land
plough it deeply, then take your
trees, low budded or seedlings (the
latter are best) and not more than
an inch in diameter, ana with a sharp
knife, at one cut, a smoothly as pos
sible, behead the trees II to Is inches
from the collar or surface line, as
they stood in the nursery. Have
ready a varnish of %one-fourth pound
of gum shellac, dissolved in one pint
of alchohol, and apply a coating to
the cut surface. This is very neces-
sary to prevent the emulation o gum
and sap, which are needed to develop
new buds. Set up sticks in rows 20
feet apart each way, 200 to the acre;
dig a hole at each, and set in a peach
stump. Fill in the original soil nice
ly around the roots (using no water
nor manure), until the earth reaches
an inch above its former mark on the
tree /; after which, if the land is poor,
a little we'll rotted compost may be
upon the surface around each
tree. Proceed now to SOW, broadcast,
a barrel of salt to every acre so set
out, letting the principal part fall
within six feet of the trees.
AS new limbs begin to grow out,
care must be taken to keep them par
allel with the surface of the earth
on no account allow them to grow
upward. If on a hillside, train as
many down hill as you car. As soon
as the limbs are two feet long, provide
sharpened sticks, six inches
long, with strings attached; drive
one under each limb that tends up
ward, pass the string over the limb,
drawing it down quite near the
ground, then tie to the stake, forming
! loop in which the limb can grow
without injury. Do not suffer any
to grow higher than its point of
,rigin at the trunk of the tree. Du-
the summer you have choice of
,wo forms which you a give the tu-
,ure tree, accordingly as you train
he growing limbs. l. The limbs may
,e trained horizontally, d%iverging
rom the body of the tree like the
pokes of a wheel from its hub, when
ying upon the ground, allowing side
ranches from these main limbs till
he spaces between are filled. 2. By !
raining on opposite sides two large !
limbs, each 10 feet long, with many
darallel side limbs from these two, 5
nd at right angles with them, all to- S
ether in form, somewhat resembling {
be revolving portion of a wooden :
lorse rake. These should remain /
,ermanent. From these parallel i
.mbs grows the wood every year j
which is to bear fruit the following
ear.
In midsummer this new growth :
hould be cut back one-half, which ]
ill cause larger and better fruit 3
long the Atlantic coast, sea weed ?
be spread over the trees in the 4
il, or straw, as a protection against I
svere cold, and will form an admira- /
mulch in the summer, also keeping I
he fruit from contact with the dirt. c
not remove this covering in spring Z
.til the buds begin to swell and op- L
n underneath. If there + indica- {
ons of frost after the trees are in =
Iossom, they should be covered with o
ID blankets. quilts bagging, &c, eve y
night till the danger is past. Ev- i
y two years the orchard should re- Il
i've a dressing of salt, in the spring, "a q
, directed above, and every fall a Ia
BOD supply of well good rotted ma 4
ire that prepared with lime slaked s.
it'll salt water is best. Apply all W
anure upon the surface, and keep
ear of weeds with the hoe. Never =
the plough after the trees are set. s
is designed they shall cover all tie !;
,ound except such narrow paths as
be necessary for supplying ma d
Ire and gathering fruit, which may Dc
done with wheel barrows. Where :,
-er the saline properties of the soil
we been exhausted, the peach tree o.
III not fruit. Salt must be supplied to
Their in the soil or by the atmos- &c
Iere, through the sea breeze. Very tg
he fruit is reported as grown near 50
reat Salt Lake in Utah. a
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