Connecticut western news., 1878-02-07
FARM AND GARDEN.
ORCHARD AND NURSERY.

kCeToU0ttTlg OGd ITeeS.-There is popular notion that trees get into an un- productive condition through neglect of pruning, and that thorough pruning is all that is needed to restore them to healthful and fruitful state.N This is mistake. While pruning is usually needed, this is not the chief want of the trees. They have been brought to their poverty by starvation, and their great need is food. This being supplied, pruning, scraping, and other treatment scay come in to aid.
 Manure being the first thing needed, the fertility of the orchard may be brought tip by generous application of ba- yard manure, spread upon the sur face. and turned under by Q shallow blowing, then green crops, buckwheat or clover, may be sown, to be turned under, with application of lime, or ashes. Having provided for the soil, thel ra... .-..4 Pruning may be considered, if the variety is known to be desirable one. In pruning an old, or any other tree, it should be done with definite object. If branches have been broken, or are partly decayed; if the head is so crowded that light and ar cannot enter if limbs cross and chafe one another If the head is quite one-sided, or if for any other reason 8 removal of portion of the top V Ill be beneficial, then use the saw. | Gratting.-H the tree produces in- different fruit, then, besides the renova- tion already mentioned, it should be grafted with some good sort, but it will be of little use to graft an old tree if it is still to be starved. With a large tree, it is better to graft only about one-third of the head each year. beginning with the branches in the center of the tree. The time is just as the buds begin to 1 swell. -,t Insects must be looked after now. The clusters of eggs of the Tent Coter- pillar may easily be seen against the sky in dull day; they are to be looked for as ring about three-quarters of an inch wide, near the ends oi the twigs. Cutting and burning one of these de- stroys about 500 caterpillars. 1he
 Canker Worn, has unfortunately reached places where it was not known, a few years ago. The insects come out of the ground in early spring sometimes Tn February in @ warm time---ascend the trees to lay their eggs, from which will come devasting brood that will take
 every leaf. They are easily kept down,
 as the female is wingless, and has tc climb up the trunk. A barrier applied
 early, and kept in good condition, will
 st op them. There are numerous con
 trivances the simplest is band of stiff
 paper applied closely to the trunk, to
 which is applied pine tar or printers
 ink. These must be examined every
 few days, and the application renewed il
 not sticky, as sometimes dust and the
 bodies of dead insects make bridge fol
 the living insects to cross upon. , II u.y FRUIT GARDEN. n yea a 1 The plants in the fl 1it-garden coming
 into bearing much sooner, and being watched more closely, the need Q abundant manuring is more manifes , here than with the slower growing an' longer-hved trees of the orchard. Wha i, is said of the necessity of perfectinl plans in advance, and preparing fo
 planting under Orchard, applies here
 The fluit-galden is for what are knowl as small fruits if trees are admitted they should only be
 Dvarf Fruit Trees.-We were SUI , prised to learn from usually intelligen . merchant, few days ago, that he sul
 posed dwarf pears were distinct kinds ! and different from those upon large C a standard trees. AS others may have th :, same impression, it may be well to sa II that the dwarf pears, apples, etc., al made so by grafting or budding tI ordinary varieties on stock that col trols and stunts their growth tn
 causes them to come into bearing vel z young, and to be very fruitful in pr
 portion to their size. The pear
 grafted on quince stock, to dwarf i 7 the apple, for the same purpose, on a kind of apple called the Paradis . There are also dwarfing stocks for che a ries, plums, etc, and there are two { e three peaches that are natural dwarfs.
 Pruning may be done on dwarf tree and if grapes, entrants, gooseberrie 7 |, etc, were not finished last fall, the ~ should be pruned on mild days.
 q Supports are needed by blackberrie :, for which we use sti.ke standing abo1 f six feet out of the ground <; some giy ,- them a wire trellis, such as we use fc raspberries, but higher. This kind of :. support is made by setting stron
 stake, or sma, post, at each end of tn
 row @ heavy galvanized wire is attache
 to post by one end, and the other
 fastened to piece of o1e-halc-inch fro l, rod, upon which 8 screw thread is cut II this rod passes through the other pos u ~e