Identifier: cu31924008492203 (find matches)
Title: The peaches of New York
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Hedrick, U. P Howe, G. H. (George Henry), b. 1888 New York State Agricultural Experiment Station New York (State). Dept. of Agriculture Herndon/Vehling Collection. fmo
Subjects: Peach Fruit-culture
Publisher: Albany, J.B. Lyon Company, printers
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
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avoid or check it. The problem is not an insurmountable one, for hereand there are orchards and varieties which suffer little injury thoughpossibly adjoining others in which trees or buds are wholly or partiallykilled. There must be reasons for the injury in the one and not in theother. These, the New York Agriculttiral Experiment Station made anattempt to discover a few years ago in letters addressed to the peach-growers of the State.^ From the information received, and that gainedby observation, we may lay down the following propositions regardinghardiness of the peach in New York. First.— The soil has much influence on hardiness. The peach musthave a warm, dry soil to secure the hardiness inherent in the species. Onlyin such a soil can trees make a strong, firm, well-matured growth, which isconducive to hardiness. Bottom-heat seems especially necessary to secure For a full report of this investigation see the Report of the New York State Fruit-Growers Associa-tion 180-187. 1908.
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;:i;i^V THE PEACHES OF NEW YORK 135 a growth that will withstand cold and for this reason gravelly and stony-soils, since they hold heat well, make good peach-lands. So, too, a gravellysubsoil seems to provide the proper root-environment for the peach-treeand if this be present it matters little, so far as hardiness is concerned,whether it be overlaid with sand, gravel, loam, a light clay or combinationsof these. Second.— The amotint of moisture in the soil in the winter affects thehardiness of the peach. Either extreme of moisture, excessive wetness orexcessive dryness, gives favorable conditions for winter-killing. A wetsoil freezes deeply and trees standing in it are sappy throughout the winter.Cold, alternating with warm weather, or accompanied with dry winds,causes excessive evaporation from trees and if the soil be so dry as not toftirnish moisture to replace the water evaporated, winter-injury ensues.When twigs and buds shrivel in winter, whether from lack of water or lackof

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