Connecticut western news., 1878-07-11
HE I IFARA AND GARDEN.
oAoHARDl AND NURSERY.


 essential to success, and neat packing are found to be as important with this as with any other fruit. The time when one would fill a wagon body with Early Harvest or Sweet Rough apples, put in a shovel and half bushel measure, go to the nearest village and shovel up his fruit, has gone by. It pays to select the fruit, pack it in paper-lined new half barrels, or in baskets or crates, and put it upon the market as carefully as if it were pears or peaches. Thus treated, summer apples pay, as some growers know to their profit.
 Eaaly Pears come to maturity rapidly, and if not gathered in time, many are apt to rot at the. core. Selection and neat packing pay with these.
 Zhdnmimg Fruit, however thoroughly ! it may have been done early in the season, will still need attention, and any excess may still be removed.
 Yoaing Trees.-Much pruning may be avbided by occasionally p;nching the young growth, and removing entirely shoots that start where branches are not needed.
 ' iBlsSht.-We know nothing of this mystef fious malady until the fatal blow has fal lien. Gut away the blighted twig, branch, or tree, back to sound wood, and as precaution, burn the dead prunilgs.
 L'asects.-It is not practicable to re- peat every month and every year the whole insect story. In brief: Borers show themselves by saw-dust, by gum, and by fattened dead-looking place on the bark. Out out or probe with wire. The peach-borer is to be sought for just at or below the surface i; the in sect lays it's eggs from now until autumn. A small mound of coal-ashes around the trees has been found useful. Cooling Moth.-Pick up and feed to pigs all fallen fruit, or keep pigs in the orchard. Examine weekly the traps, whether of cloth or hay-bands, and kill those that have hidden there. Cloth traps may be run through an old clothes wringer. .s. .Slugs, on pear, cherry, and other trees-ittle dark green, slow-moving, slimy creatures are killed by disting lime, ashes, or even fine road dust '. Late nests Tent Caterpillar, and those of the FaU We6- aOorma, now often abundant, must be destroyed wherever found. E Block Knot, often mistakenly sup posed to be the work of an insect, should be cut out on it's first appearance on plum and cherry trees. .~-~
 |, The Time Jtor Buddieg varies with the loeality. Cherries and plums are ready first, and the pear next. The pr per time is when well-formed buds may be had, and the stocks are in grow ing condition, so that the bark readily parts from the wood.
 FRUIT GARDEN.
 Grafoe-vines.-The growth this year of the new vine being preparatory only, all that can be done is to encourage the production of 8 single strong, vigorous cane. When the shoot has reached the top of the stake, let it hang over as it will. Keep the laterals pinched as there directed; pick off all beetles and cater pillars, and use sulphur freely if mildew appears. .r. .. Old Vi,es need similar treatment as to laterals, insects, and mildew. Chance shoots often appear on the arms, o1 other parts of the old wood. If these are not wanted, rub them off at once, But it sometimes happens that these come just where we would like to have 8 cane, to allow some change to be made in the training, such as to give us new arm to replace one that is faulty; in such case we have only to encourage the new growth.
 Summer Layering is an easy and rapid method of propagating the vine As soon as 8 shoot of the present season in 8 convenient place, becomes hard ] enough to handle -recollect that they break with the greatest ease at the ssodes or joints-open a trench 8 few inches deep, and bury few joints, removing the leaves from the buried part of the shoot put down 8 stake, and turn ur and fasten the end of the shoot to it and treat this as if it were 8 young vine In hot weather, and in light soil, it is we'll to lay fiat stone over the buried part of the vine, to keep the place moist
 Blackberries and Raspberries, as al cultivators should know, have 6aenaeia stems. The shoot which grows this season will bear fruit next summer; the stems now bearing fruit will die in the fall, to be succeeded by those now greer and growing. Growers differ as to the pronriety of removing the stems as soo1 as the. fruit is of, some preferring te leave them until fall, under the ples that they will help strengthen the root As good cultivators are equally divided on this, both parties claiming tha 1 practice warrants their view, we doub if 1t is a matter of great importance, anG would follow the most convenient course New shoots, or canes, for next year, fruit, should be cared for, and all tha Estart, but are not needed, be hood up al l weeds. Raspberries may be stopped il their upward growth, by pinching, whel at three or four feet, and blackberries a five or six feet. This pinching the top will cause side branches to grow, whicl are to be)kept in control by pinchins
 when they have grown as long a desirable.
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