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Fruit Trees

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Parent Issue
Day
23
Month
June
Year
1871
Copyright
Public Domain
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The following respecting fruit trees vül bo found interesting : 1. Wheu fruit trees occupy the ground nothing else should except very short grass. 3, Fruitfulness and growth of trees cannot be expected the same year. . 3. Thero is no plum that tho curculio will not take, though many kinds may sometimes escape for a yoar or so in one place. 4. Peach borers will not do so rouch datnage when stiff clay is heaped all around the tree a foot high. 5. Pear blight still puzzles the greatest men. The best remedy known. is to plant two for every one that dies. 6. If you don't know how to prune, do not hire a man from the other side of the sea, who knows less than you. I. Don't out off a big lqwer limb unl#s you ajo t robte, and don't care what becomes of the trees when your time is out. 8. A troe with limbs coming out near tho ground is worth throe trooa triuuncd uji five foot. 9. Trim down, not up. 10. Shorten in, not lengthen up. II. If you had your arm out off, you would feel it to your heart ; a tree cannot feel but rots to the heart. 1?. Whon anybody tells you of a gardener that undorstands n about horticulture and agrioulturo, i,Mcl heoanbe hirod, dou't bebeva a word of it. Such a man oan mako more tlmn you can afford to give him ; and if he has sonso enough ♦o understand the business, ho v? havo vengc enough to know this. A Vermonter lately taken to tfisk for beatintf li vife, 6xtingished his persecutora thusly: "I havo road ancien.t and modern, history, and rode on a peddlor's cart yoars, and I think I know someihing of human, nature, and when my ifp cnjght.to .Uei.-whipjjed,"

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Old News
Michigan Argus