The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1886-02-20
John J.. BLACK, NJ. D.,


JOHN J. BLACK, NJ. D.,
OF NEW CASTLE. DEL.
The following table Of con-
tents will give the character
and scope of the work.
CHATTER I.
Introduction The natural history Of the
Peach. Early Peninsula Peach culture.
Peach growing as business.
CHATTER II.
Growing the Peach trees from the seed.
The trees in the nursery. Budding Peach
trees.
CHAPTER III.
Locating the Peach orchard. Planting
the Peach trees. Care of the young Peach
orchard. Pruning Peach trees.
CHAPTER ".
Cultivation Of the Peach orchard. Fer
tilaton of the Peach orchard Formulas
for fertilizers, etc. Green Manures and
Lime. Objections 10. Rules for fertilizing
Peach trees. Potash. Iron. Phosphoric
Acid. Ammonia. Chlorine, etc Peach
tree washes. Germicides.
CHATTER V.
Diseases and enemies Of the Peach
lellowS, lis cause, nature, and treat
ment. Analyses Of healthy and diseased
Peach wood Prof :. I. MAYNARD on the
Peach. Frost. Curculio. Curled leaf.
The Borer. Ihrips. Aphides, etc.
CHATTER VI.
Varieties of the Peach for the Delaware
and Chesapeake Peninsula. When, where,
and what varieties to plant. Lists for
orchards in different parts OF the Peninsula
and for different purposes. Table Of ripen-
ing. Taole of relative value OF varieties
CHATTER VII
Gathering the Peach crop. The Della
ware Fruit Exchange.
CHATTER VIII.
Canning the Peach. Conserving the
Peach. Peach Leather Preserves. Peach
Brandy. Evaporating the Peach. Relative
value Of different varieties for evaporating.
Sun dried Peaches. Plans for Peach
Orchards.
lllAIlIk IN.
Fifteen questions to Peninsula Peach
growers, and answers thereto, from between
twenty and thirty growers. Shipping
Peaches TO Europe.
CHATTER Y.
The Fear Introduction Natural history
Of the Pear. Development of the Pear
tree starting from the seed; It's anatomy,
physiology, etc. Standards. Dwarfs.
iybrids. History of Peninsula Pcar-grow.
ing. Pear growing as a business.
CHAPTER NJ.
Propagation of the Pear. The nursery.
Budding and grating the Pear.
CHAPTER MI.
Varieties Of the Pear, grown on the
Peninsula. Standards DwarfS. lIybrids.
The shapes of Pears Individual descrip-
tons OF the different varieties OF Pears.
CHATTER NH.
The proper lists of varieties for the
various kinds Of orchards. The site and
soil for Peninsula Pear orchards. Planting
Pear trees, and what crops 10 plant among
them. Pruning standard Pear trees. Prun-
my dwarf Pear trees.
CHAPTER NV.
Tie standard Pear orchard The dwarf
Pear orchard. Rules for fcrtilizing the
STANDARD Pear orc hard Rules for fertilting
the dwarf Pear orchard Formulas ful Pear
fertilizers. Pear tree washes.
CHATTER Nv.
Diseases and enemies of the Pear. Fire
Blight, rwig Blight, Frozen Sap Blight,
Frost Blight, Insect Blight, Leaf Blight,
Blight OF the Fruit; their nature, cause and
treatment
The Slug. Bark-Lice, Scale,insccts,
Curculio, the elements, starvation, over
feeding. cracking of the fruit Dccaying Of
the fruit. The Borcr and other insects.
Premature shedding of the foliage. Frost.
Cracking of the bark. Analyses Cf Pear
wood, healthy and diseased. Analysis
OF the fruit
CHAPTER WI.
Gathering the crop. Cplling Housing.
Rlpenng. Cold storage of Pears. Market
lnlg the crop. Evaporating the Pear. Can
ming Pears. Conseres. Work in the fruit
orchard for each month of the year
CHAPTER NNII.
Eighteen questions sent out to Peninsula
Pear growers, with answers in detail from
between twenty and thirty growers.
CHATTER XVIII.
4he Ounce. The Spanish Chestnut.
The Japanese Sweet Chestnut. The
English Walnut or Madeira Nut. The
Shellbark. The English Filbert. The
duty of Peninsula fruit growers to one
another. The duty of the State to her fruit
The book will contain be-
tween three and four hundred
pages, bound in cloth, and
illustrated with engravings,
prepared especially for this
work. 1t will be printed on