The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1912-07-25
OF INTEREST TO
FRUIT GROWERS
From the Denver Field and Farm.

From the Denver Field and Farm
Along about this time OF the year
sIiny slugs move in and attack our
cherry and plum trees. eating away
the green matter and leaving only the
skeleton of the leaves. In about
month the sluss disappear for time.
but moro come on later. When the
slugs are very thick. the damage to
the leaves sometimes results in the
death of the tree for the defol!ation
in this dry climate Is fatal through
the ravages of the blisterlng sun. The
cheapest and one of the most effective
remedies is one pound OF paris green
mixed with $50 gallons of water and
three pounds OF quIck-lime. but the
dust spray containing the dry poison
Is quite as effective when applied on
the mcist foliage as wet with dew in
the tAriy morn and we do sometimes
see such a phenomenon in this coun-
try.
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The famous old apple trees OF Man
za9p. New Mexico. now known to fruit
grSwers. scientists and historians all
over the United States because OF their
great age and wonderful vitality. are
to>be perpetuated by the methods Of
modern science. Fabian Garcia has
begun extensive experiments in graft
ing cuttings from the trees to determ-
Inc. II possible. whether the trees
were the growth from seedlings. or
whether the young trees were carried
over the thousands Of miles from
Spain by the daring 1rst pioneers
who planted the orchard and built
the rAssion Of La Guara. II has been
more than thirty years since We have
seen these trees and they were then
neA1y 800 years old. The mysts-y
ls that they should have stood 50 long
th1 sgh all the vlcissitudes OF three
centuries for they grow on an arid
hillside where even a gnariy plnon
would have n struggle to survive.
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Some one asks for information con-
eerning the yellow raspberry and 10
tell the truth We had almost forgotten
that there ever was such thing.
There are dlrereu; varieties OF the
yellow raspberry. One grows from
suckers like the reds while others
mus, be increased by tipping like the
blacks. They are OF fne quality. but
for a large neid we would prefer the
latter kind because they do not spread
so much The leaves and canes are
aTaie or yeliovish green We re-
member having seen canes resen OF
eight feet in length but never thought
much Of their culture because the coll
or is against the fruit as a CONNER
cial proposition. II n case Of yellow
raspberries should be opened any day
on the Denver market not one person
In hundred would know what they
were and would pass them by as some
new wrinkle. They are 1. fact the
4eetest and most delicitur OF all ths
'raspberries andd would - par excel
lent for canning II we could only get
enough Of them.
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within the next week or ten days
the real work OF thinning will begin.
No other line Of orchard work will pay
as large dividends as thinning. II is
practically impossible to grow fruit
In this country without judicious thin
ming after the June crop. The great
fault In this country where We are
30 lavish with our irrigation Is the alb
normso growth of wood which our
trees are constantly taking on. As
this tendency is not usually overcome
by pruning the fault must be correct
cd by thinning and It requires a lot OF