Show s from eprom the country gentlemen and cultivator HOW EVERY MAN IIAN MAY ofay RAISE nib HIB 0 OWN PEACHES EDITORS many of your readers though perhaps not all of them have realized the difference in flavor between a fully ripened peach taken from the tree and the same insipid fruit that we nind find nind find in our market obtained from orchards located from one to four hundred miles distant in the latter case in order to have this tills fruit in a condition to bait bear transportation and to last until 1 it t can au besold be sold without decaying it has t to 6 be picked in a green state the consequence is that when there is a good crop in western new york or new NeW jersey our markets overflow with peaches neachea but scarcely one is to be found af lit for eating out of hand or cutting up into cream tor lor the table such peaches have often an attractive appearance when seen piled up on fruit stands or exposed in baskets but they are not worth much except for preserving having discovered a method by which every man may raise his own peaches and have them in abundance and perfection it affords meg mer me pleasure to communicate it to the public for the general benefit and especially for the tile information of all lovers of good fruit to raise my own peaches I 1 proceed as follows I 1 commence by digging the earth away from one side of the tree at the distance of about 12 or 15 inches deep enough to sever all the roots that thal that interfere with my object act running the spade also under the tree ao so as to cut all the roots that descend vertically the tree is in a condition to be bent over on one side and laid flat on the ground several of the stronger lateral roots on that side are not cut at all but only curved upward somewhat aa the tree reaches the ground this does not injure u e them the branches of the tree being ei g brought as close to the earth as possible ible ibie they tily are still further flattened E down wn by laying an old post or some similar weight upon thein them care being used not to braak the limbs the object is 13 to get the top of the tree pretty closi to 10 we tae burfe e A mound of earth is alin the ri raed ra ral ed wd over tho upturned roots 60 boas Is t tj b t t fieni i leni teni freezing in the opeo and t lii lit u it bearin bearing woodis wood is co ii 1 r u atly wn h some bome kind of litter r en eno 11 t coi ja it them mostly but nat nt nit j i icily ak i furnish a harbor for nn I 1 ii lie LC L C my div old uld or cucumber v i pota 0 op apart ua I 1 u stalks or aa aty loi cigol ta d iund my A y trees tre Ire ebare are now realy fc rca a 1 to bv b covered wilh with now snow as eoon as inter winter sets gets in kiich I 1 keep pilad f c et er the etiole top of lt lie lic tie from bix six liaa idaa to a tt ot in depth this is all thal thai N i bequir d the luule process may bo iso deser d under we tae title of lv y I 1 i our pe PCS in in the on keep the e jiow on a 1 winter miti mill it goes off in the spreng spring ng aad and houi your fruit bu buds ds will com out aa as fresn fresh and lively as thoy thy were w wu a n laid down at first in ene the tore fore part of april or after the buds bi nn gm to sho allow w signs of starting set your trees up agai agal again n by clearing outtie out the tho space on which they stand so that tile the shortened roots will go back baek back naturally to their proper positions and can be secured there by pressing the earth in around them or throwing up an extra quantity around the base of the trunk trees thus treated will exhibit no signs of injury but will grow as vigorously during tile the summer as though their roots had not been disturbed I 1 think however the operation is somewhat a dwarfing dwar fing one but the health of the tree is not in the tile least affected to grow peaches in this way I 1 shall depend mostly upon young and small trees treasy when they get to be old and stift stiff it may be betterto bettel to throw them out altogether and replant As far as is practicable the tree should be forged forced into a fan shaped form this bring brings the branches closer to tiie tile ground for covering in my aly old trees are now ten tell feet high and rne rae measure asure ten or twelve through the luchea luches branches at tile the widest vi dest s instead of hayl hail haig i a s spindling growth from the end i aLthe th t e limbs they grow quite bush nii nil nd have new wood within three ae our t ur feet of the surface trees set bet ilal lial 1 I 1 k pring of 1863 havenia have many hy hund r c d blossom 0 om buds oil on them and m mav a IF bear ar K a peek peck c of fruit trees set last spring D hav llave many y blossom buds and will P produce uce uee a aa much uch fruit as it if will be safe eafe to allow the thi trees to bear I 1 think it pays to get a dozen nine fine peaches from a single tree two years old from tho tha bud I 1 have tested this method two years in succession successfully with complete success tilis this last laats eason season dhotre tho troa experimented upon were wore nive five jn number all of the alno fine aorta and have been growing in in my rix garden ten tell or twelve years they were annually headed nars gars down own w with ith the hope that some mild winter would transpire w which aich would reward me with a crop of fruit for my pains but they never produced a single peach though setting largely with frair buds in in the fall I 1 tried several other experiments which all failed until in ahe the fall of 1862 1 I bethought myself of this plan my five trees were laid down and one of them only littered as above prescribed the rest merely covered with snow after snow fell which was not un anul the 1st ast of february and there lay over or 4 inches in depth on the ground that was in 1863 1868 the mercury only fell to about zero until after the snow came in february when it once or twice went down to 8 or loo 10 below and all the peach buds on standing trees were kil kii killed lei lef the tree which hai hal had bad the straw protection beside the snow produced a fine crop one on of tile the others had two peaches on it the other three failed whether yh ether this was owing to the want of straw or the lack of snow previous to the month of february I 1 could not determine but last fall I 1 treated all my trees to a litter the snow in this section was light last winter but it came earlier and was at one time eight inches in depth and I 1 was abio ablo to keep my t trees rees covered all winter their extreme h height eight was six or seven feet the fruit buds were preserved beautifully although the mercury went wont down to 8 or 10 below zero and the buds conall on nil nii all the standing trees in my neighborhood perished my best tree tre bore perfect peaches another the others not so many but still handsome crops they all ripened finely on the trees and I 1 enjoyed what nobody else did under similar circumstances quite a supply of the most delicious fruit in the world grown upon my own grounds my trees are now eight or ten feet high quite s spreading in are healthy and vigorous and full of tearing bearing wood the blossom buds on them may be counted d by thousands and as they are to be subjected to tile the same process as before I 1 have no doubt they will produce me several bushels bushel of fruit next year let the severity of tho the weather be what it may during the coming winter As soon as I 1 found out what could be lone done in this way I 1 increased my stock of trees having set new ones onea in both and 1861 isol 1 they now show numerous fruit buds and I 1 shall bury them all in the way I 1 have described although bowe some of them are mere more shrubs I 1 shail be satisfied with a do dozen n peaches on these although the largest will probably bear from four to six dozen some of your readers may think the tile amount of labor requisite i t e for this object a serious matter but I 1 do not two men will lay one of my largest trees down in ten or fifteen minutes and replace it in the spring in the same time they will have to be watched during the winter to keep the snow on and in this region of light and fugitive snows they should bo be attended to at every fresh fall until a foot in depth is accumulated upon them in my case whenever we got an inch or two of new now snow I 1 went out with a broom and swept it up for a considerable space around my trees and threw it up oil on the pile over them in more snowy regions after the work was once done this close supervision would not be requisite in the tho natural peach producing pro achig sections recourse to this method would not be necessary but where the blossom buds are liable tobe killed bythe by the extreme I 1 cold of winter and where the snow can be depended on every man who tills a farm or cultivates a garden can always produce a peach crop at least for family use and I 1 see no greater obstacle to its ita being done in a small way for tile the market the tile cultivation of one hundred trees v would ouid not involve a very large expense and if confined to the varieties which bring the highest price as the morris whites for example which sold jin tin in this city last fall for seven dollars per basket it might be made quite remunerative munera tive the simple substance of this plen plan is to plunge the tiie peach beneath the snow during that portion of the season in which the mercury is liable to fall below lowsia six degrees below zero in an any y part of the country extreme degree of cold occurs and yet whore snow is is found if the tree itself can be carried over the winter so call can the fruit buds I 1 think the tile peach cince can be grown anywhere in the northern states where these conditions in may ay b be e found the time for laying trees down is in the month of november or december before the ground freezes solid pile on tho the first snow that coms comos and kee keep P them covered as long iong aa as the tho snow lasts I 1 hope this article will be in time to induce some of your readers to give my method a trial this winter if others shall succeed in it as well as 1 1 have it may result at leaskin least in stocking a good many gardens with the peach where it is now not known that it can be grown v w s le syracuse N Y nov 16 1864 the foregoing is probably in time for a trial in all localities in utah where peach buds are killed by frost as the ground is frozen but little if any and several inches of frost will merely add a little to the labor |