The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-10-10
POMOLOcICAL.
Fall Setting Fruit Trees,

NOW Is the time 10 prepare Tor an Or
chard or vineyard. The weather is fine,
you have the leisure, and you can get
good choice of trees and vines.
Don't put it off till spring if you can pos
sib!y do it now.
A Later Teach Wanted
We are in great need of later peach |
than any yet to be found in our nurseries. |
Can any of our readers tell us of good |
peaches in their vicinity that hold out as
late as November.
Peach RAISING.
From report Of committee of one
of the New Jersey Agricultural Societies,
who visited Delaware, we CLEAN and con-
dense tho following in relation to the re-
quisites of peach culture: J.. To prepare
thoroughly, clear and enrich the soil for
planting. 2. To give plenty of room, or
plant % or 30 feet apart. 3. Not to shorten
in the branches. d. TO do great deal of
work among the trees-plowing, harrow
ing, cultivating allowing no grass or weeds.
8. TO hunt the borers once year in autumn.
6. No raising corn and potatoes, except the
first three years, in the orchard, and then
only provided fertilizers are applied. z.
After the third year to plant nothing, but
cultivate thoroughly.
The objection to shortenng-in the shoots
is that it tends to unproductiveness, and the
formation of dense, unyielding head, and
increases the difficulty of gathering the
fruit. Il is obvious that when performed,
the necessary thinning in connection with
shortening back was omitted. 1t may be
impracticable to do this on a large scale, or
in hundred acre orchards. In some locali-
ties this cutting back has been found the
easiest way to affect the desired thinning OF
the truit--an operation that has tripled the
size of the peaches, and tripled their price,
in cases which we have known. Cutting
back, if properly done, increases the yigor
Of the trees, and makes the ole trees bear
the large, fine specimens commonly found
only on young trees yet it may be adapt
ed to amateur culture only, in ordinary
practice.
The thorough cultivation was believed by
owners to keep the curculios within bounds,
and so rapid was the growth impaired to
the trees, that orchards only four years old
had trees with heads 20 feet in diameter
and Ii feet high. The cultivators are broad,
reaching nearly half way from row to row !,
and doing work rapidly.
The varieties preferred are Troth's EARLY,
Early York, Stump the World, Crawlord's
Early, Old Nixon Free and Crawford's
Late. Hale's Early has failed from its La
bility to rot.
Early Harvest Apple In virginia.
The following letter from Daniel f. Cock,
Hampton, Va, was written bya gentleman
who harvested one crop of Early Harvest
apples in June last, and second crop in
November, from the same tree or trees.
Concerning this variety of apple, as grown
in Virginia, Mr.. Cock says: 81 see during
the discussion, at the meeting of the Amer
lean Pathological Society, held at Rich
anond, that this variety was not recon-
mended for cultivation in this State. | APP
pend a short statement of my crop for the
last five years. | have only an acre of
them, which were set out in the winter of
1860 there were about sixty trees set out,
full a dozen of which have since died, leav-
ing less than fifty trees. | sold in the