Show F J I = = OUIJRI I Over cultivation of Orchards an nrd such n thing M cultivating ttn o rChllrd too much This ls the casr with orchards T13 that have never been accUstOlned LO l being cltlvated It Is safest to begin cultivation In tho spring nil Boon as the buds begin to open and continue the cultivation un til tho end of July ny that time the branches will have l made their annual growth and the fruit buds wlu have developed for the fruit crop of tho fOllowing year When that has been OCCOIIIIIIIshod growth stops and tho rest of the season the tree spends In hardening up the wood that has been developed and in filling the fruit buds with material for the development In the following t spring If cultivation is continued during the latter part of summer and In the fall these Is danger dan-ger that a fall growth of wood will I lie started and also that many of the fruit buds will expand and blossoms appear in the fall Many a good orchard or-chard has been spoiled by over cultivation culti-vation Ono man In Illinois tells tho story that when he was a young man his father being away he thought to surprise him n by thoroughly cultivating I cultivat-ing an orchard of 400 plum trees It was early fall The trees took on new growth When his father returned re-turned Instead of being pleased he said You have killed all these trees His prophecy proved true as most of the trees died during the following winter Watering Trees In Summer It generally does little good to attempt at-tempt to water trees in summer Keeping tho ground pulverized will generally accomplish more In supply Ing moisture to the tree than will tho supplying of water by the hose The great trouble In watering with a garden gar-den hose Is that enough water Is not given The man will think he has thrown on a great deal of water but It will be found on Investigation that the ground has not been moistened to a greater depth than one Inch Many of the light showers In summer wet the ground only to a depth of one fourth or onehalf of an Inch They really do no good to tho tree through tho roots Their chief benefit con slsts In washing the dust off the leaves If a man Is to use a garden hose on his trees ho will accomplish more by washing off the foliage than by attempting to water the tree from below The failure In the latter case Is due to a too small supply of water and It Is extremely difficult to supply enough water through the garden hose to affect many trees Buffalo Tree Hopper The Buffalo tree hopper Is a light green threecornered Insect aboil 1 one tldrd of an Inch in length WLit appears to be the head really the thorax Is large and broad and terminates termin-ates abruptly having on either side a short sharp spine or thorn somewhat resembling the horn of abuffalo and from this comes tho common name of the Insect This insect feeds upon a great variety of plants It does its chief Injury while depositing Its eggs In August These are deposited In tho limbs of various trees Including tho apple Clean culture of orchards will do much to keep down these insects Where many eggs are deposited on a limb the only remedy is to cut off the limb and burn It but this may be done In the late fall or early spring at which times It Is easier than at the present time to discover the eggs Success With Orchards Orchards can bo successfully grown In all parts of the temperate zone but In many sections their success depends on the care given out them The man that plants an orchard and expects It to make succeed If conditions Its own way may Lions arc exceptionally good but there places where the win are very many ters are too cold and the summers are too dry to permit of the success of an orchard without cultivation spraying and pruning We have seen many uncultivated orchards which have been planted by men who hoped to make fortunes out of them hut SucB they forgot to give them care orchards almost always prove to be a financial loss Fruit Trees Not Ornamentals I divided naturally Into All trees are the useful and the orna groups two mental The useful trees are those that trim These must he severely fruit bear keep down the vol to mod and pruned al of Wood so that fruit production emu encouraged It Is useless to may be an ornamental as treo fruit to use a attempt The > 1ceptlons with rare mental disfigures of pruning required nmount suchnpruning Is neglected a If such pruning It and result of fruit will be the small crop sometimes followed the practice Therefore fruit trees on lawn lowell of planting should not be encouraged Shamed Well ShaDed Trees shaped Is Properly tree that The r artlolll apllarant will have IIn In summer 8 ell as IU In wtuter have amass to not desirable It Iii o not only I foliage In the summer of mass should he so arrang but Its give effect In cd that It will glvo a pleasing winter special market for fruit special Where deeloped a It should be secured can be market ured In a special profits cured as the than In the greater bet are much general 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