Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1899-05-26
Orchard and Garden.

Paint all wounds on trees with white
lead and linseed oil.
In pruning always remove weak and
imperfect shoots.
Dwarf pears require rather more lib
eral care than standards.
An evergreen hedge is a good protec-
ton to an orchard.
Prune all peach trees so as to form
a loose and open head.
Mix manure thoroughly with the soil
when setting II trees of all kinds.
Land that has been in cultivation a
year or two is best for stra wberries.
Let there be light in the centre Of
the fruit tree; secure this in pruning.
In pruning the gOOseberry and cur
ram prune to secure Il spreading, open
head.
Manure is the foundation of a good
garden; accumulate all that will be
needed.
The hotbed should he given an air
ing every day when the weather will
permit.
In transplanting. old trees require
more cutting back than younger, small
er ones.
Well-rOtted manure can hardly be
eXcelled for radishes if used as a top
dressing.
With all garden seeds it is a safe
plan to cover according to the size of
the seed.
Powdered heleb0re. either dry or in
solution. is n sure remedy for the cur
rant worm.
For all lcaf-eaters the spray may he
used as SOon as the first leaves appear
on the trees.
Newly-Set trawberry plants should
not be allowed to bear fruit: pinch off
the blossoms.
Generally every thing that adds
beauty to a place always adds to its
money value.
Any soil too damp naturally to pro
duce healthy trees should be avoided
by the orchardist.
4 little wood ashes around each
strawberry plant will help in securing
more and better fruit.
There is no advantage in planting
the tender variety of vegetables until
all danger of frost is past.
One of the best ways of destroying
weeds on the lawn is by cutting off
close and applying turpentine.
Any good corn land that is not too
low and wet will produce good crops
of blackbcrries and rasphprrics.
Vacant places in the orchard may be
filled 10y setting out young trees pro-
vided the orchard is not too old.
In nearly all cases it is best to leave
the mulch on the strawberry bed until
after the fruit has been harvested.
While clover cannot he eXccllcd for
seeding down an orchard. ii should not
be done until the trees are in bearing.
Ry planting all small fruit in long
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ton can be done much more economi-
cally.
With blackberrics and r%aspherries it
Is n good plan to give thorough cult
Walton during the early part of the
season.
Rhubarb may be forwarded from
now on by placing kegs or half barrels
oven the plants and putting manure
around them.
Peach trees should be pruned so rs
to leave no clutches, but limbs. extend
ing from the trunk four to twelve
inches apart.
Curled leaf in the peach is n disease
of a fungus character. 1t develops
usually after n cold spell. followed by
a period of warm weather.
one good remedy for mildew on
g~ooScherrics is to spray with pOtas-
stun sulphide at intervals of 10 days
or two weeks during the season.
1t is only in exceptional cases that il
Is advisable to keep trees or plants
mulched all the time, In the spring
it is often best to remove the mulch
and cultivate.
Give the young orchard good cult
walton until the tree comes into bear
ing, TO propagate blackberries cut
the roots into pieces two or three
inches long and plant them.