Orchard Notes

Few kinds of fruit are easier grown than the cherry. Black knot is a fungous growth. Cut off and burn all affeoted branches. One of the most serious objeotions to continual mulching is that it tends to encourage shallow rooting. In pruning roses, outting bock olosely produces as a rule fewer bloorns, while bushes not eo closely pruned will yield smaller blooms. The careful planter wlll see to it that there is as little exposure of the roots as possible bet ween the time of taking up and planting out. When trees are received late in the f all, in many oases it will pay to hold them in carefully rather than to risk setting them out su late in the season. To give trees a long lease of life, select those of a strong condition, plant them in a deep, rioh, well drained soil, and prevent severe drains upon the vitality froiu overbearing.