Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1893-08-30
CONNECTICUT PEACHES.
The Way to Raise Them Successfully
Barring Cyclones.
The Rridoanork Standard tells how tn


Barring Cyclones.
The Bridgeport Standard tells how to |
raise peaches successfully, as follows:
Those who have tried peach raising not
only express themselves greatly pleased
with the result of their experiment., but
more than fully repaid for what trouble
And, indeed, anyone with sufficient space
and time can raise peaches and keep him
self and his neighbors supplied with the
luscious fruit from the time the season
commences-about the LIST of August
until 1t closes, or up to the time of the 6rst
frost.
Besides numerous other varieties, Gen.
William 81. Noble has on his grounds three
early peach trees that yield fruit that IL
perfection, combining, with all the other
good qualities that a peach should possess,
round, perfect form and the quality of
peeling after the skin is once started with
out cutting into the fruit at oil, the skin
pulling off as easily and leaving the peach
as perfect as q tomato that has been plunged
into boiling water.
This peach was grown by the Stephen
| Hoyts Sons nursery in New Canaan and
Ia by far the best peach that has ever yet
been grown, three small trees of this vari-
| ETY. of three years. growth yielding no less
sAns tWo DuSuolS VI 1dISo,cAoolAoAs Poaohoo'
The only organic disease that attacks the
| young peach trees is the disease known as
| the "yellows." This Is easily determined
| by the leaves becoming of dull yellowish
hue and by small yellow shoots starting
| out in different parts of the trunk. AS
there is no cure known for this disease and
as 1t is contagious, the best method of e6-
terminating 1t is to root out the Affected
tree, and this should be done az soon as
the disease is discovered, to prevent a
/ spread of the oontagion.
There is small grub that attacks the
soft part of the peach tree just under the
ground and begins to eat up and down,
finally girdling the tree and killing Ii. The
best method of getting rid of this pest is to
| sorape away the dirt around the roots OF
the tree and pour strong soap suds or hot
water on the roots; but as an ounce OF
prevention Is worth q pound of cure, this
worm may be efectually kept away from
the trees by wrapping them closely with 6
sheet of tin or tarred paper, from the
ground to about a foot above it. As thi,
leaves no place for the fly to deposit 1T
eggs-from which comes the grub-ther'
can no grub be Matched out on the tree
and 20 the tree will not be attacked.
The manner In which peach trees ar
| best grown is to plant them from Is to q
feet apart in dry, rich soil. This sol
should be kept free of weeds, and should
be constantly turned to keep 1t loose, ant
we'll sreated. Should the young tree es
cape the yellows, in three years 1t will b
making large returns, and after one ha
tasted peach that has just come off tn
tree he will no longer struggle with tn
store peaches, which have most likely beel
picked when green and have travelled
long distance.
The peach tree grub is not the cause o
the yellows. as a great many people SAP
pose, the yellows being an organic diseas
: which comes from an entirely differen
. | cause.
There are now hundreds of people VIII
are raising peaches for their own use, an
by skillful management and arrangement
, have peaches as long as the season lasts
, and for the little trouble it Is to take car
of and raise peaches, 1t seems strange tbs
more people do not have the delicious fru
growing on their premises, instead of buy
, ing at q store, where half the peaches al
: green and unfit to eat.