Show I 1 A aej pee aed mull tio W 4 MUSK DISEASES feht causes large dead area areas sit blight in leavas fungus attacks stem of all plants with Imil lift by A D SELBY velce amelon leaf blight Is a disease cej or of less peculiar to the neat although the fungus which to ame it es it has also been found upon iier ber leave leaves ie leaf blight causes rather large ua W 1 areas a in 1 the leaves which are baily distinguished from those of 0 re a ew by their larger size and the at tl reacy y of the central portion to bea ak it oat out tho prevention of adl on lent blight la Is by no meana means an all est 4 1 matter requiring of itself grat t P P roughness and carefulness in the I 1 ll catlon of the bordeaux Dor deaux mixture 1 tiso also requiring that the downy adew dew shall be watched during the ali me 9 period for this reason earlier laid I 1 vj top bear 0 ab tog art tit leaf attacked by blight ref th if made before august 1 aft hould be repeated at fortnightly in mil while those after august I 1 ifould be at weekly or ten day inter ils melon growers have succeeded ta following these lines while others ho 0 sere ere less thorough vere were less sue teaful a or failed entirely the bor feaux treatment Is recommended with I 1 the common fungus of the muskmelon attacks the stems of plants of all sizes an well as the r leaves in these the fungus produces r the fruiting bodies after the seeding luge tj passed it Is usually possible to keep the in irm eneck by with bordeaux mixture increasing gooseberry bushes la in many places it will pay to plant core more goo it if you babp a few old bushe that you like very much the tho way to increase them Is very timple lay down the tips of the branche tranche tran che dext spring and cover with oarth they will take root and may be b removed in tho the fall A still littier way but it involves the lose 1096 of one crop of at fruit Is to cut tut oft sll all the tops taps of at the old bush lose to the ground and cover an inch deep with earth anywhere from 12 42 to 50 sprouts will start up after atter they are ro six inches high fill in with three inches of at mellow earth in tho fill fail you will have as many well root 14 d plant t as there were shoots which MY be cat cut on ott and set in a row cultivation for grapes ot 10 vines require frequent low cultivation throughout the entire a they prow anywhere and eidom do they require much for iab wood ashes about one half bushel to the vine Is the be best st fertil it lir or to apply the quickest qui chest growing tree for a bolter belt Is the willow blackberries are started from pronta and by root cutting cuttings after the raspberries axe through irb wilting the old canes are taken out ot old canes ot of all bramble berry bathes are best cut out when through fruiting dewberries and black raspberries art M propagated in to the same manner as blackberries new varieties of strawberries liko like ml all of ot our cultivated fruits aro are pro ced from the seeds prune a little every year rather than too much in one year it will be much ler let for you and a great deal better for or the orchard A molt moist soil got when kept in a em un it condition as long 1 as ozol ble the 9 surest mean means to 1 winter killing ang of at tw trees whits 1 sandy ou are Dro probably bably good r 11 berrie aay any noll oil not too rich 1 bring box results |