Fruit Culture

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Excerpt from Fruit Culture: Sour Orange Stock, Fertilizing and Methods of Compounding Fertilizers, Injurious Insect Pests, Parasites, and Observations I visited all the largest fruit districts of Maryland, Delaware, and New Jersey, and found that the peach crop for this year will be almost an entire failure, owing to the heavy March frosts, which destroyed the crops. What fruit was not destroyed is much below the average in quality. This has been a very heavy loss to the eastern peach growers, and has driven many of them out of the business. The trees will have to be cultivated for a year without any production or profit, and the cultivation is very expensive, as commercial fertilizers have to be applied even for the growth of wood. A crop cannot be grown without fertilizers, nor can the trees produce fruit buds for the coming year without it. There is practically no peach crop in the East anywhere, and it will be difficult to supply the demand of the markets with California fruit this year. The cherry orchards in many districts were full of fruit, but the curculio had stung nearly every fruit, and, in fact, it was with great difficulty that any cherries were found that did not contain from two to eight holes in them. These holes are of a crescent shape, the work of the curculio beetle. The plum crop is also damaged by the curculio, and, in fact, very little effort is made, on this account, in their culture. The apricot is not grown for the reason that the fruit is also destroyed by the curculio, and the climate is not suitable for its growth. The pear and apple crops will be large, still about 25 percent will be lost by the ravages of the codlin moth. This State is the only place from which anything like an adequate supply of green and dried fruits can be obtained this year. The orange orchards throughout the State of Florida were damaged to a great extent by the heavy frosts in March. They have also suffered by droughts, having had a very dry winter. The rainy season does not begin there until May, and continues through the summer. Although the trees have suffered considerably, the fruit crop of Florida will be fair, as in many places the frost did little or no damage. These places were mostly where the trees were irrigated. Water is pumped from the lakes for this purpose. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.