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    Growing Fruit under Glass - The Peach and the Nectarine
    Growing Fruit under Glass - The Peach and the Nectarine
    Growing Fruit under Glass - The Peach and the Nectarine
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    Growing Fruit under Glass - The Peach and the Nectarine

    By David Thomson

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    This vintage volume contains a guide to growing peaches and nectarines under glass, with information on selecting varieties, common problems, pruning, training, and more. Complete with simple, step-by-step instructions and a plethora of helpful illustrations, this is a guide that will be of considerable utility to those with an interest in growing fruit at home, and it would make for a worthy addition to collections of allied literature. The chapters of this book include: 'Peach-House for Early Forcing'; 'Peach-House when Ripe Peaches are Not Required Before July'; 'Drainage, Depth, and Width of Border'; 'Soil'; 'Varieties for Early Forcing'; 'Nectarines for Early Forcing'; 'Late Nectarines'; 'Propagation and Selection of Trees' and more. We are republishing this vintage book now in an affordable, modern edition complete with a new prefatory introduction on growing fruit.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRead Books Ltd.
    Release dateMay 31, 2013
    ISBN9781473390027
    Growing Fruit under Glass - The Peach and the Nectarine
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    David Thomson

    David Thomson is the author of more than twenty-five books, including The Biographical Dictionary of Film, biographies of Orson Welles and David O. Selznick, and the pioneering novel Suspects, which featured characters from film. He lives in San Francisco, California.

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      Growing Fruit under Glass - The Peach and the Nectarine - David Thomson

      DISEASES

      THE PEACH AND NECTARINE.

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      THESE two fruits are classed together. They not only belong to the same genus (Amygdalus), but the same species (persica) includes them both. The nectarine differs from the peach in being somewhat less, and in having a smooth skin, the skin of the peach being downy. There have been instances of their being both found on the same branch, and single fruits have been found with the skin of the peach on one side and that of the nectarine on the other. They may each be arranged under two classes—viz., the free-stone peaches and nectarines, the flesh of which separates readily from the stone and skin; and the cling-stones, which have a firmer flesh adhering to both the stone and the skin. The cultivation required by the peach applies also to the nectarine.

      There is considerable difference of opinion among botanists as to the native country of the peach. Persia has been considered by some to have been the place of its origin. "Decandolle is, however, of opinion that China is the native country of the peach. His reasons are, that if it had originally existed in Persia or Armenia, the knowledge and culture of so delicious a fruit would have spread sooner into Asia Minor and Greece. The expedition of Alexander is probably what made it known to Theophrastus, B.C. 322, who speaks of it as a Persian fruit. . . . Admitting this to be the country, how can it be explained that neither the early Greeks, nor the Hebrews, nor the people who speak Sanscrit, and who have all sprung from the upper region of the Euphrates, had grown the peach-tree? On the contrary, it is very probable that the stones of a fruit-tree cultivated from all antiquity in China may have been carried across the mountains from the centre of Asia into Cashmere or Bokhara and Persia. . . . The cultivation of the peach-tree, once established at this point, would easily extend, on one side towards the west, and on the other by Cabul towards the north of India. In support of the supposition of a Chinese origin, it may be added that the peach was introduced from China into Cochin China, and that the Japanese call it by the Chinese name Too. The peach is mentioned in the books of Confucius, fifth century before the Christian era; and the antiquity of the knowledge of the fruit in China is further proved by the representations of it on sculpture and on porcelain. The above are some of the arguments adduced by Decandolle against the commonly received opinion that the peach originated in Persia."¹

      The peach is very extensively and well cultivated in China. In America it is grown in great abundance, and is extensively used for making peach-brandy; and in some of the States it is an important article of food in a dried state. It is cultivated as a common standard orchard-tree. The hot summers of the Western World ripen the wood sufficiently to enable it to bear with impunity the intense frosts of winter. The Americans raise their trees from stones, and though they grow rapidly into a bearing condition, they are not long-lived. It is not uncommon to find orchards of from 10,000

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