Smyrna times., 1886-01-20
THE PEACH
AND
THE PEAR.
AGENTS WANTED !

Of the Peach and the Pear on
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 M. D.,
OF NEW CASTLE, DEL.
The following table of con-
tents will give the character
and scope of the work.
CHAPTER I.
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.
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
tilization 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.
CHAPTER V.
Diseases and enemies of the Peach.
Yellows, its cause, nature, and treat
ment. Analyses of healthy and diseased
Peach wood. Prof. S. T. Maynard on the
Peach. Frost. Curculio. Curled leaf.
The Borer. Thrips. Aphides, etc.
CHAPTER 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 npen-
ing. Table of relative value OF varieties.
CHAPTER VII.
Gathering the Peach crop. The Della
ware Fruit Exchange.
CHAPTER VIII.
Canning the Peach. Conserving the
Peach. Peach Leather. Preserves. Peach
Brandy. Evaporating the Peach. Relative
value of different varieties for evaporatng.
Sun dried Peaches. Plans for Peach
Orchards.
CHAPTER 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-gow-
ing. Pear-growing as business.
CHAPTER XI.
Propagation of the Pear. The Nursery.
Budding and grating the Pear.
CHAPTER XII.
Varieties of the Pear, grown on the
| Peninsula. Standards Dwarfs. Hybrids.
| The shapes of Pears. Individual descrp-
tions Of the different varieties Of Pears.
CHAPTER XIII.
I 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.
CHAPTER XIV.
The standard Pear orchard. The dwarf
Pear orchard. Rules for fertilizing the
Standard Pear orchard. Rules for fertilizing
the dwarf Pear orchard. Formulas for Pear
fertilizers. Pear tree washes.
CHAPTER XIV.
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-insects,
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 Peat
wood, healthy and diseased. Analysis
Of the fruit.
CHAPTER XVI.
Gathering the crop. Culling. Housing.
Rpening. 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.
CHAPTER XVIII.
J The Ounce. The Spanish Chestnut
The Japanese Sweet Chestnut. The
English Walnut or Madeira Nut The
Shellbark The English Filber. 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, anC
illustrated with engravings
= prepared especially for thi.
J work. 1t will be printed or
5 frst-class paper and in the
best style. 1t will be