Peach trees look as if they are wilting. Get beyond the flagging leaves and you see that the trees in Frank Gouin?s orchard are robust, mature and free of the leaf spots, oozing gum and mummified fruit that afflict neglected peaches.
Gouin has spent 20 years raising the perfect peach, starting by sowing the rootstock from seed and, a year later, grafting a bud of the desired variety on to the seedling. From a pointed bud the size of a grain of rice, each tree has grown six feet wide and 10 feet high and produced countless bushels of luscious fruit in the summers since.
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