The daily gazette., 1881-01-18
REPLY To Mr.. RUTTER.
For the Gazette.

Il
Mr.. JoHN RUTTER. OF WEST CHEs
TER, ,PENNsYLvANIA II have read
your letter in the GAZETTE in reply tc
= few lines of mine in same paper on
the subject of peach growing diseases
etc. ! will give few general opin-
ions and experiences Of myself anj
other Delaware peach growers and
close the matter. What some persons
called Yellows in peach trees, was
when the foliage would turn sickly
yellow. You wrote me to know how
far the yellOws had worked down into
Delaware; l wrote you in answer that
did not know what the yellows were
as disease that could produce such
an appearance in peach orchard by
deep plowing IN a dry time, Gu ting
and tearing the roots with a plow, and
then let the orchard lay two years
without tilling. This treatment would
produce said yellows and ruin the
orchard.
You next say it 10 trees that prema-
ture their fruit that you call yellows.
Now sir, l stated that was an unset
tied point, how that was brought
about, but the supposed causes were
legion, and cited the following as n
few causes that might bring it about:
Growing tree from a diseased peach
seed, dead wood at the heart where
the original tree was cut of, to throw
the sap In the budded sprout, early
picking peaches the previous year be-
fore they were ripe, plowing orchards
when they were very dry or very early
in the spring while the ground was
wet, Is there were heavier frost where
the ground vas fresh plowed. have
two orchards on one tract down along
the creek below Odessa, one orchard
was plowed early and the other late:
the one plowed early would premature
its fruit on green foliaged trees and in
two years had 10 be cut down; the
other orchard that was plowed after
heavy frosts were over bore with fair
crops for eight years after the other
orchard was taken out.
Extreme cold winters as the pres.
ent Injuries the trees by freezing aud
bursting the sap cells, and no doubt 10
another cause OF the peach ripening,
swelling and coloTing up with red
spots two or three weeks in advance
OF the time Of ripening sound fruit of
the same variety. In your book you
give no cure for this premature ripen-
ing tree, nor does this Washington
chemist that extols your book, there
fore both you and your chemist friend
are fiat failures.
So far as curing what you call yel.
lows, and what l call premature ripen-
ing peaches, you produce no cure, but |
tell me that the peach tree ashes ana
lyzed by chemists is composed of 30 |
much potash, etc. Now if were a |
community of soap makers, this infor-
nation about the percentage of potash
in the ashes of peach wood might be
interesting, but by that chemical test
OF peach wood, neither you or your
learned friend in Washington CITY.
can no more find and point out a cure
for your yellows, than you could tell
from the ashes of a human being out
Of the retort Of the LeMoyne He'll, at
Washington, Pennsylvania, whether
the person had been father Of many
children, consumptive or an old
The real and reliable chem
sts in fruit business are the mon
whose whole time is devoted TO tho
business, to note everything and rems.
iy mistakes as far as they can.
4 stated that cotton, in favorable years,
lad been grown In Sussex county Of our
,iate, but not enough, however, to make
{ paying Ibusin ness, and that peaches
lad and could be grown some years in
,hester county, but not enough to be-
-
usinsss. And for proof against your as
eriisns and book TO the CONTRARY, your
Ioster County sensible farmers con-
niue the milk, butter, grazing and
ram raising business, aud pay twice a
luch for their peaches in West Chester
8 they cost at Delaware peach orchard.
.ou take exceptions to my assertions
There 1 state that zero, aud and de-
reos below Is too cold for peaches, and
nat from to 10 would kill all peaches.
iy predictions have literally been full ,
He'd since wrote you my FIRST letter
nd TO the Farm journal in Deoem ber.-
on, think, state tnat you have limbs (
I good live peach buds. You muSt he
lore Ignorant on the peach question !,
IAN supppossd, If you assert that you !
ave i've peach buds out of doors at J.
our place. do not believe there is q
nRlo live peach bud from the northern .
delaware line 70 the north pole, or in
le same latitude from the Rocky Noun.
Iins to Nova Scotia.
Last winter We Dever had Ice thick
nough TO store away, aud scarcely had
hat might be termed Della wi are win
IT, and all the way from here 10 Canada
ERE a few Peaches OF inferior QUALITY.
he gteai peach gr ) wing:centre of t1is
Is, | mean, more reliable
ian any where else yet found-Is the
,wer half ct New Castle county, Dels- I
ARE, lower half of Cecil county, A ary-
md. Therefore half Kent county,
la1yland, one third Of tbs upper snd
10 upper two thirds OF Kent Q ,untv. =
and will give yoa INV opin. |
ms. Why from the State Of Name.