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i^triTS IN THEIR SEAStM. 49
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, . , —' Xi. The Peach. Its Itaxy *' Hom...
practice sca _^ cityv of orchard sowing soils corii were between more the ' than rows of ever trees Impoverished and the grand by cause the
of the peach-disease Is supposed to be the _exhaustion , of the land hy excessive and unlntermittent cropping . It has at least been found
impossible to trace it to any external cause whatever ; and as it Is Its _weU ¦ strength knownthat after the / having hardier borne app a le- very tree requires full crop a while year to the recover great
, natural luxuriance of the peach induces it to begin forming new ffii . it buds even whilei Itsi branches are still laden with the harvest
of the current year , it is only reasonable that the latter should _require a larger supply of nutriment in order to enable it to
maintain _^ _^ suchextraordiriary activity ; and therefore its becoming enfeebled when left wholly to itselfunpruned and unmanuredIs no more
than might have been expected , . The disease is being , still further spread and perpetuated by the extreme carelessness of the growers .
_thousands 'as ' Ho the _^ ' of seeds _^ "bushels _& oni of which the _fi ? new iii t annuall plants y are exposed to be for obtained sale in , the for
markets are now seen at once to bear the fatal-plague spots on their skin which brand them unmistakably as the offspring of diseased
trees , yet their stones are continually re-sown , though this practice effects Only insures are not a yet ednnhed further to dissemination impairing * of the the size malad and y . quality Its Injurious of the
fruitbut are also manifested in the premature decay of the tree , itself , now proverbially short-lived ; whereas in lands far less
_favorable in point of climate , bttt where art has lent its kindly aid . to the peachits existence has been prolonged beyond even the
term which Nature , seemed to have assigned to it , for while the American . peach , left to itself , never lives beyond twenty or thirty
years , accounts have been laid before the French Horticultural particular _measuring Society of , peach two which and -trees was a half upwards nearl feet y round of a sixt centenarian ) y all years of which old and , were ( and had still of a one in trunk full in
health and vigour , aii effect attributed , to their having been subjected therefore to an considered nual prtining to depend _' . Future on the peach observance prosperit of y in three America require is
ments- —tlie _extirpation of every diseased plant , the sowing of none but healthy stones , and the yearly pruning all new trees ; and
Iii _thaii it would so ' _^ _- hese well _ce , _^ rafcher adapting _^ _ffl _y _'•^ than _be _^ the _wor forego clim _^ _. _wliile ate the to to advantages comp this fr ly uit with th _afforded at harder our b best conditions y Nature sorts
; when taken there become still better , whereas their nrst-rate ones if tfansj ) lanted here prove but of very inferior quality .
In the Southern andWestern States , where imperfect means of communication prevent the surplus of the farmers' orchards being sent
produce brand to regul y , ar of hundreds anarkets single , of it orchard is barrel disposed s b while eing of by the sometimes being refuse converted of supp the lied stills into from peach is em the - -
ployed to _fasten a- hogs , a fact which ; probably gave rise to the following
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I^Trits In Their Seastm. 49
i _^ triTS IN THEIR _SEAStM . 49
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1861, page 49, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091861/page/49/
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