The Orchard

No Orchard is happy that has no Acmé hawow. Fungí often destroy new grafts ; sprayiug will save thein. Is the bark lousy ; then brush it over in blossom time with streng soapsuds. Or whitewash. Spray the fruit trees a week after the blossoms have fallen ; then twice after that, two weeks apart. The best plan with cherriës is to plant enough trees to supply tiie family and the birda. Who would begrudge the birds all the cherriës they can eat ? Now remeniber, never plant a block of one variety of auy fruit tree ; for good resulta mix the varieties. Ooss-pollenization is best ; and some sorts are barren otherwise. Just as likelyas not codlingmoths are in your cellar, near the window, trying to get out. Go see, and if you find any, kill 'em. Three-eighths inches long; look for copper-colored spots near rear end of wings. Four gallons of whitewash, twoquarts of clay, two quarts of fresh cow droppings, three quarts of wood ashes ; mix well and apply witli au old broom to the sterns and crotches of your peach, apple and quince and dwarf pear trees. This should be done at once as a precaution against borers. The wash should extend below the surface of the ground a couple of inches. Talking about "grubbing out diseased peacli trees now," why bless your hearts, the time to do that is the very first day in summer when you discover the tree is diseased. Do not put ofï taking out trees with the "yellows" uutil the leisure time in winter, but pull out and burn when first discovered, even if you have to stay home from spring election to do it, if it is a successful peach orchards you are after. If your trees have been planted and you did not prune the tops, you made a great mistake. Go at once and do it. Cut the peach trees off just above where budded, near the ground ; applea and peaches may have the entire head cut off from two to four feet from the ground, where you want the trees to head ; or if you are afriad to do that, then cut out all feeble branches and shorten all others one-half. Do as we say, please. Blossoms on the tree tops, Blossoma in the hedges, Blossoms by the wayside. Blossoms in the sedges ; Blossoms of the Cherry, Blossoms of the peach, Blossoms of the apple. f'alling each by each. Now about Japanese plums. Hale says, that while they do not equal some Ëurqpean varieties in quality, they are very hardy, early bearers, ship well and in quality some are very good, if not best, though some are very poor. Burbank is the mostsatisfactory of the older varieties; Chabot next, then Normand, a yellow fleshed sort. AVickson blooms very early, colors well after picking. One should have an experiment orchard