Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1872-04-18
HORTICULTURE,

HORTICULTURE,
Continued from last Week.
l. 7 would not advise you to plant
Plum trees; the Black Knot appears as
Iif it would destroy all the trees. An
Eastern horticulturist says there is no
variety exempt from it. The Blue
Damson is the most profitable variety
that have out of seven. 1t is but
tslighty affected with the Knot. The
Muscle plum is very large, the trees
healthy, the fruit is very good, but ow-
ing to the large size of the fruit, they
are well adapted to the use of the Cur
fculfo, so that but few specimens are
left to ripen. If you doplant the trees,
chose clay soil to set them in, and al
low pigs and poultry to have free use
lof the orchard. In reference to stand
lard trees only must give you my ex-
tperience with
--t=,- DWARF PEARS. 2le5
heard man once inquire if Dwarf
pear trees were not made by inverting
the graft. There may be some who do
not yet know how they are produced.
Standard pear trees are worked on pear
stalks, ,Dwarfs are worked on the An
/ giers Quince, sometimes on the Noun
tain Ash and the White Thorn. Some
varieties of pears will not unite with
the Ounce; only about one-third of
the varieties recommended by the
Ohio Pomoligical society are suitable
for dwarfing. have tried the Bart
lett, Louisa, B. d. Jersey, Buera Diel,
Buera Easter and Winter Nellies; they
have been planted IA years; they are
still healthy and produce heavy crops
of fruit; the trees are near four inches
in diameter and from ten to fifteen feet
high. 1t is not worth while to plant
them unless they have good soil and
good cultures; clay loan suits them
very well. It is recommended to plant
them 10feet apart 1t is rather too close. !
They will bear fruit at three years old. |
They should be well thinned out orI
they will overbear and die. Dwarfingt
the pear not only causes it to bear
while young, but with some varieties
it improves the quality of the fruit. In
planting the trees always set them
deep enough to cover all the ounce
stalk in the ground, and then raise al
small mound of dirt around the tree to /
give it support, have seen many in
stances in which dwarfS were success,
and / have seen several in which they
were. failure. / saw nice lot of trees
in front yard that was covered with |,
a stiff sod; another lot was planted
with great care in a we'll inclosed lot,
and then flock of sheep turned in to
take care of them. In both cases the
dwarfs were failure; and l have no
doubt the owners pronounced them a
humbug, 3 u alLE z Tn1I
In regard to the different varieties
of Il
PEACHES
I hardly know what to recommend,
but there is one new variety of great
promise that has proved a great failure.
/ refer to Hale's Early. 1t would RI
pen. its fruit in this latitude about the3i
first of August, but owing to the ex-
tfeme heat at that time of the year the /
fruit nearly all rots on the tree before
it is ripe. The Ohio Pomological Sell
ciety recommended thirty-fve varie!
ties as suitablefer this latitude. One
fourth of this number is as many as
should be planted. I have ordered
for myself and neighbors the present
Spring over eighteen hundred trees of
the following varieties: Abberge Vel
low, Crawford Early, Crawford Late,
Early York, George the ", Crosse
Lagrange, Morris r.. Rar-
eripe. Old Nixon Free, Red C. Moloco-
ton, Smock, Stump, the World and
Heath Cling These are well tested
varieties and have given general satis-
faction. In regard to planting, pfow
the ground deep, and then make a
very -sh ha1fow hole to set them in, do
not thrust them down deep in the
ground, peach trees are natives of Per
sia and require the warm soil near thei
surface to spread their roots in.0 One s
extensive peach grower in Ohio raises
a mound around his trees one foot high
when he plants them, and then In '
creases it one foot each year until he '
reaches four feet; this he claims sup
ports the tree and keeps the worms ,
from the roots. When a lot of trees are
received from the nursery always cut
at least one-third of the top off them
plant a hoed crop among them for at {
least three years and give clean culture. (,
A crop of oats is fatal to young peach /,
trees, find that 10 by 20 feet is good /,
distance apart to plant them.s / havel.,
some that are only by 20 feet that are
doing well. When the rows are wide j.,
apart il allows room to drive between
when gathering the fruit, when trees
are close in the rows they support 5
each other. l have no wish to quarrel {
with those who recommend q fight !
soil for peaches, but I would chose a
heavy limestone clay. In the sandy E
'oil of New jersey one crop is all they
expect from Peach orchard. g
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