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Orchard And Garden Notes

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Parent Issue
Day
25
Month
January
Year
1893
Copyright
Public Domain
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K.-iUIpíis are more Hable to Injure apple trees than any other Bram liee and twigs nhould alwaya be eu1 ckrae and smool h, go thai i will heal ■ i Ií yon secure only ;i mi flclent supply i (ruit for yonr owo use, tUje growing oí tlieiii should be proHI Whlle a careínl selectton ol the varletiee í fruit s Important, setting out and caring for tüiem te equally i m j) (1-1 :i 11 1 . Vh ie iioisc-s will iiot asually injure t lic trees by gaawlnig or oating iiit'iii, 1I1" trampJng is aften injtirioug. Occasionally, wiu-n o seedllng prescuis au extra fine appearance, it wül be a jrooil plan to allow it to grow and mature fruit. In transplanting, no matter iiow cai ciiilly iloiii-, the conditiong oí írriiwtli. -o Dar as the roota are conoerned, are Interfered wltto. The decáduoua and fruit trees will stand sume ilryinir and more frost in takiiiK up, luit the evergreens ae a clase wíl] Btand oeitiher. Neaxly or quite al] varletlea ai tone fruit, like tiiH peach, plum uil eherry, siionlil i,c grafted before the sap stai-ts. it Iktwísc, Bnccesa ia doubtful. In tin' cnttlng of potatoee the Ohio Experimental Station. reporta that tiu marketaWe produd Iwreasee as thi' sizi' oí Ui' CTitting i-; increased, hut cinc-; iiot iniliiw the game rati ■ total prod It win add something to the beauty uf au orcberd after it once gets wdl r-iiaiilisiicil. if iiiii' is taken In setting i, ut the treee to be sure thai Ui 'y are in siu'raiüiit rows l.oth ways. I; i-; Uu' iliüiviii; ,;n I freeilng weather we éo unen have ta the latter part oí wdmter and early spring tiiat so often tajurea newly eet trees and jila.nts. and it is at tliis season that mulctiing s of the most value. Mice-girdled tices can be saved by grattitug, putting in a clon connectlng the two parte of the bark that lias been ut. "i t ii an olil tree tliis plan i advisaUIc, lmt in many cases witli tices the better plan is to take CWlt the injiircd tree and put in a ne-w one. (üve tlie trees sruiuient room to irrciw nauirally and gtve the 'ruit plenty of room to develop properly. Mmli ui the failure to grow choice fi-ii i t is in the crowding ui the trees too close loirether and the crowding )f the fruit on the treee. Nuthinii' dcvriops to the highest degi ■■ when crowded In growing fruits marker, as vi i'.li Other ])roducts, every precnution sliould le Uiken to gtow tlie best qAiality. There Wil] be l)ut little dlfferenco in Hhe coat, luit coneiderabl ■

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Old News
Ann Arbor Courier