Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1868-02-06

NOW.
We find great disparity of opinion, even
among experienced and successful peach
growers in regard to the management of an
orchard. This results. doubtless, in great
measure from the difference in location, soil,
&C., so that the method successful with one
may fail with another, owing to the differ
ent circumstances. Some growers claim
that peach orchard should never be plowed
or cultivated after it has commenced to bear,
because of the liability TO bruise the trees,
injure the roots and otherwise damage the
tree to the detriment ofthe crop. They say
that the ground should be enriched by oc-
casional top dressings and left undisturbed.
This system may be moderately successful
in a light, loose, sandy, loan soil, where
the roots of the trees lie near the surface,
but we doubt if it is the best method. We
think, in any kind of soil, the ground
should be stirred with the pillow once year,
and in a stiff heavy soil cultivation is inds-
pensable. If the soil is good and strong it
may be cropped, but otherwise, growing
and bearing orchard will require all the
strength oil the soil 10 mature the iruit.-
Keep up healthy wood growth and insure
longevity. The peach, In this climate, Is
naturally great bearer, and this TACT mas
led many unretlecting persons to believe
| that an orchard required Out very llttle at
fention, hence the surprisingly short lie Oh
many trees. Ihey bear abundantly Tor
Few years, when the tree and frult rapidly
deterlorate. Inc Jertaeaty o. the Sott IS
exhausted. This is especially the case IN
in the thin, light, sandy soil, where, by
many, peach trees are supposed to do the
best. This is mistake, A deep loan with
a clay subsoil is much better Tor the peach,
and an orchard will live and bear longer in
such than in light sandy soil. The par
ticular cultivation an orchard should re-
ceiye will, therefore, be determined by the
nature of the soil.
An almost total neglect of pruning has
characterized the culture of most orchards
allowed to have its natural way. This
might do in its native climate, but we should
reflect that the peach is indigenous to an
other and warmer climate, and the whole
system of cultivation hers il in n great mea
sure artificial A tree under proper man
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wears and produce yery considerable Gro,
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