Author: James Alexander Fulton

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2015-06-25

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 9781330391808

Excerpt from Peach Culture In an occupation so progressive as Peach Culture, a decade shows many changes. In preparing a new edition of this work it is found that, what was true as regards varieties, at the time of its publication, must, in order to give their present status, be essentially modified. Indeed, the Chapter on Varieties has been almost entirely re-written, old kinds being omitted and newer ones brought into prominence. Minor corrections have been made all through the work, while some matters of interest to peach-growers are more appropriately given in the present preface. At the time when the first edition was published, the shipment of fruit from California had just commenced; it was then suggested that, while the less perishable fruits, such as grapes, pears, etc., might be sent from that State by rail, the more delicate peach could not be transported. The peach is now successfully shipped from San Francisco to New York, but the cost of transportation is too great to allow it to become a profitable business. The facilities afforded by the Post Office Department in the cheap and rapid transmission of plants, cuttings, etc., enable the peach-grower to procure buds from a distance at a low rate of postage, and for packages of buds the sending by mail is the preferable means of transportation. During the years that have passed since the first appearance of this work, peach-growers have suffered greatly from the severity of the winters, notably in 1880-81, which was the coldest ever recorded in Delaware. 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.