Los Angeles daily herald., 1890-03-13

or more delicious apricots than they pro-
duced, and l am not the only one who
says 80. have two or three trees which
get the water that overflows from NV
tank. These trees have grown rather
struggling, but the fruit is not as good as
it is on the unwatered trees. There are
apricot orchards on wet land near INV
place which grow rampantly, but the
fruit is not as large, nor is it as fine flavor
as mine.
The trunks of young trees must be
protected from the sun, or the sap in the
combined layer will be scalded and il
will turn sour and the bark will die on
the southwest side; the tree will then
bend towards the northeast and expose
more of it's trunk to the SUMS rays, thus
making matters worse. The sour sap at
tracts the borer, which deposits its eggs
IN the diseased bark sno the tree is soon
destroyed. Therefore, if you give your
trees high heads so as to get up to them
with your horse and cuitivator, it will be
we'll to wrap the trunks with white cot
ton cloth or some other material. /
have found the leaves of the Yucca very
good for that purpose; two will envelope
small tree and three or four will cover
trees one or two inches in diameter.
Stand them up around the tree hollow
side in cut off an inch or two of the
pointed end, then tie at top, middle and
bottom, and your tree is protected from
the sun, rabbits and borers. Soft soap
put on with brush, about twice year
is one of the best applications I have
ever tried to keep rabbits and borers
away. 1t also leaves the bark in a
healthy and vigorous condition. By
making your heads low you have the
trunk shaded. The fruit is convenient
for picking and the ground is shaded
under the trees, which prevents evapor-
alton, and serves almost as we'll as q
good mulching. The weeds will not
grow as rank in the shade and few
strokes of the hoe or rake will sufi-
ciently loosen the soil about the tree
where the cultivator does not reach.
Ornamental evergreen trees ought
never to be pruned. You cannot i'm
prove them; their natural growth is as
beautiful as possible, and pruning spoils
them to an aesthetic eye.
Orange and lemon trees should be let
alone until they are three or four years
old, then the dense spray in the
center of the trees may be cut away,
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crop or chafe each other. l saw last
summer, what was left of once fine
orange orchard, which was nearly all
killed by trimming the trees up five or
six feet high, 80 as to be able to get up
to them with the cultivator. The trunks
were exposed to the sun and it killed
them. Orange and lemon trees should
be left with all their branches on until
the head is large enough to shade the
trunk. Then you may take off the lower
limbs if you are crazy to prune. Olive
trees require very little pruning until
they are five or six years old. Take off
the suckers, or better, heap up the earth
around them and let them root, then
take them off with fine saw and plant
them. This is the easiest way to raise
them, unless you have hot-houss to give
cuttings bottom heat. Keep the trunk
shaded until the outside bark is hardened
and impervious to the SUMS rays.
The pear is another tree which needs
but little pruning, 30 is the fig. If you
want to ruin your fig trees, for several
years shorten in the limbs and you will
succeed admirably. Cropping or strag-
Cling limbs are always an exception, also
any limbs which grow at very acute
angle with the trunk, particularly on
apricot trees. Such limbs should ba cut
away before they get much growth, as
they are sure to split off when the tree