Show peach calvre although there exists a general apprehension among our farmers that the peaches have been killed by the unusual severity of our long winter we think thai there is yet hope hence gome additional information concerning peach culture may be interesting and welcome to our readers A new jersey sub ber put the following question to the new york can you give me through the weekly herald any information regarding peach culture the best imo to beet out aud what is heat to m around them to keep the worms ut and make them grow if north or south side hill exposure he was answered thus bet your peach trees where they can be cultivated ns summer crops and kept clean and never where the sod ia to remain unbroken around them the best soil is a light warm sandy or gravelly loam in a exposure eil irom wind set out in the spring from twelve to fifteen feet apart raising potatoes or some such crop between them they should be grafted the when a year old transplanted to the orchard at two or three years and when from six tp twelve yeara eld must be cut down and burned being replaced by new or in other places thin tho branches annually and every spring shorten each young bahoot one half of iiii growth of the prey tous year be careful nayer to manure them too highly or they will be winter billed in northern latitudes ahe most formidable disease to which peach trees are subject is the yellows the probable cause of this is neglect of culture combined with overbear over bear ing the first indication of this dis ease is lie too early ripening of the fruit bhough the tree may seem in at tha stage severe win ter pruning and summer cultivation of the ground to the regular plough ing o much needed will generally restore the tree if the is al lowd to run for a while remote the tree from taft orchard of insects the grub or peach worm la the most destructive destruct ire the eggs are laid by the peach fly a fly more than halt an inch long in the bark ef the peach tree at the surface of the earth tender by contact with the soil the worm in a few days and eating its way to th A inner bark winters there if several eggs have been laid in ono tree the worms will pretty well it by the end of may about which they commence to form their cocoons tho outside of which is usually covered with the sawdust liko casting of the worms lu tho spring after examining the tree and removing any that may be found form a cone a foot high around tho tree of earth or better still beached leached wood ashes let this cedono about be last of MB and removed in october and tho bark will harden below the reach of the fly alie following year when driven freoa the root tho worm sometimes itself upon tho forks of tho principal branche abut wherever it may be glance will dist coyer it is in the spring its presence is always indicated by the exuding gum |