Peaches are never borne twice on the same wood, but always on the new wood of the previous summer's growth; hence peach trees soon get beyond our reach, if not cut back, or "summer pruned." The bearing wood each year gets farther from the ground, until we only find a little fruit on the extreme ends of the branches. Mine were in that condition in the spring of 1861, when, as the very sudden cold snap of November, 1860, destroyed all the fruit buds, so there would be no fruit for the trees to nourish in the summer of 1861, the growth of wood would be very great, and the trees still further beyond control. To subdue them, I sawed them off about two feet from the ground, in April, and covered the wounds with gum shellac, (not a good article;) a mixture of one-third each of beeswax, rosin, and tallow is a much better covering. They all pushed out numerous shoots, which grew from 5 to 8 feet in length, and every twig is full of fruit-buds, so that I have a good prospect of a crop the coming season, unless the mercury falls to 8 or 10 below zero, a degree of cold the peach blossom bud can not stand in this section.

The conclusion arrived at is this: with the treatment named, (barring the excessive cold,) a crop of peaches can be obtained every year, by sawing down every other tree in the row, or alternate rows, every year. Let half the trees be producing wood and the other half fruit, and the following spring saw down those that had fruited.

Should the frost kill the fruit-buds, then saw all back to the stump again.

The method of cultivating low gives us control of the trees, to thin out fruit, cot back, or summer prune.

[We can see no reason why sulphur, as applied by Mr. Thompson, should not be a good preventive of the depredations of the borer. Soft soap applied to the base of the tree is a good preventive of itself; so, also, is the refuse grease of the kitchen. Sulphur would probably add to the value of either. We are enabled to confirm what Mr. Thompson says in regard to the results of cutting down the peach. Daring the same cold season, a number of trees were cut down at our suggestion, the trees being some seven years old, and the fruit-buds dead. All except one made good wood. It was considered an extreme remedy for an extreme case: we should much prefer systematic spring and summer pruning to a general resort to it. The suggestion will have its value, however, to many of our readers not familiar with it - Ed].