06-04-2004, 09:15 PM
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fruit tree
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Larry,
You did not say the age of your peach tree. Semi-dwarf peach trees don't have
a long lifetime, probably less than 12 years. If your tree
died rather quickly, say in one season, chances are that it was a pest or
some disease that killed it. If it slowly deteriorated over several seasons,
that would indicate it went from old age.
It was a semi-dwarf Reliance peach and it was at least 12 years
old. So it probably did die of old age.
That assumed, I think I'll plant another one. Sure are good
peaches. That is, what the birds, squirrels, skunks, and
raccoons leave for us.
Thanks for the info - I never though of plain old age. I guess
I thought trees lived forever, although I do remember that
Lombardy poplars are fairly short-lived. But that's not a tree,
it's a weed :-).
I have some wooden bowls that were turned from apple wood from a
hundred year old orchard that went for a housing development.
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Where ARE those Iraqi WMDs?
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