The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1886-02-06
TIE PEACH
AND
THE PEAR.
AGENTS WANTED !

vi lllS NlSIt anu lliS 4 al VII
the Delaware and Chesapeake
Peninsula, with a chapter on
Ounce culture and the culture
Of some Of the Nut Bearing
Trees, by
JOHN J. BLACK, N. o.,
OF NEW CASTLE, DEL.
The following table Of con-
tents will give the character
and scope of the work.
CHAPTER ].
Introduction. The natural history Of the
Peach. Early Peninsula Peach culture.
Peach growing as business.
CHAPTER II.
Growing the Peach trees from the seed.
The trees in the nursery. Budding Peach
trees.
CHATTER Ill
Locating the Peach orchard. Planting
the Peach trees. Care of the young Peach
oiCIlsIu. IIullllS IGaCn trees.
CHATTER ".
Cultivation of the Peach orchard. Fer
tlizaton of the Peach orchard. Formulas
for fertilizers, etc. Green Manures and
Lime. Objections to. 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, its cause, nature, and treat
ment. Analyses of healthy and diseased
Peach wood. Prof. S. r. MAYNARD on the
Peach. Frost. Curculio. Curled leaf.
The Borcr. ThnPs. 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 fer different purposes. Table Of npen-
ing. Table of relative value OF varieties.
CHAPTER VII
Gathering the Peach crop. The Della
ware Fruit Exchange.
CHATTER VII.
Canning the Peach. Conserving the
Peach. Peach Leather Preserves. Peach
Brandy. Evaporating the Peach. Relative
value Of different varieties for cooperating.
Sun dried Peaches. Plans for Peach
Orchards.
CHATTER TX.
Fifteen questions to Peninsula Peach
growers, and answers thereto from between
twenty and thirty growers. Shipping
Peaches TO Europe.
CHAPTER X.
The Pear Introduction. Natural history
of the Pear. Development of the Pear
tree starting from the seed; its anatomy,
physiology, etc. Standards. Dwarfs.
Hybrids. History Of Peninsula Pear-grow.
ing r-growing as business.
CHATTER NJ.
Propagation Of the Pear. The nursery.
Budding and grating the Pear
CHAPTER MI.
Varieties Of the Pear, grown on the
Peninsula. Standards. DwarfS. Hybrids.
The shapes of Pears. Individual descrp-
lions 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 to plant among
them. Pruning standard Pear trees Prun-
ing dwarf Pear trees.
CHATTER NV.
The standard Pear orchard The dwarf
Pear orchard. Rules for fertilizing the
Standard Pear orchard. Rules for fertilizing
the dwarf Pear orchard. Formulas lor Pear
fertilizers. Pear tree washes.
CHAPTER Nv.
Diseases and enemies of the Pear. Fire
Blight, Twig 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 Decaying Of
the fruit. The Borer and other insects.
Premature shedding of the foliage. Frost.
Cracking of the bark. Analyses Of Pear
wood, healthy and diseased. Analysis
OF the fruit.
NliAIl IN ~ ' L.
Gathering the crop. Culling. Housing
Ripening. Cold storage Of Pears. Market
ing the crop. Evaporating the Pear. Can
ming Pears. Conserves. Work in the fruit
orchard for each month of the year.
CHAPTER XVII.
Eighteen questions sent out to Peninsula
Pear-growers, with answers in detail from
between twenty and thirty growers.
CHATTER XVIII.
The 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
interests.
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
hrSt-class paper and in the
best style. 1t will be
SOLD Only by SUBSCRIPTION
Price $500.
Agents are wanted to can
vass all parts of the Peninsula.
Liberal terms and exclusive
territory.
For particulars, address
THE JAMES & WEBB
PfintiqgtStatiOnsrg Company
224 MARKET STREET,
WILMINGTON, DELAWARE