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Show HORTICULTURAL INQUIRY. Editor Deseret Farmer: What is the matter with my trees and bushes? They turn yellow and then sto growing grow-ing and the leaves dry up and fall off as though they had been burned with fire, On the top of some of the cur-rant cur-rant bushes a webb something like a spider's webb is formed. A year ago I planted some new stock of raspberries, currants, apples and plums, thinking the old was at fault, but the new stuff seems to be the worst,, pirt of it having -died cn-tircly cn-tircly after making a good growth last spring, and again this spring. The soil is clay, but fairly well enriched. en-riched. Angleworms in abundance. Good up-land. Your opinion would greatly oblige a subscriber, i W. IT. ROBINSON, Richfield. Answer by. Prof. Northrop, A. C.-U.l ' In regard to hc above condition which is often found troubling plant? in this western country would suggest sug-gest that the probable cause is too much water in the soil from irrigating too frequently or a bar subsoil, alkaii and such other conditions which prevent pre-vent plants from feeding in the most desirable manner. This results nitlie; H 3 ' & 1 foliage becoming weak and yellow 'H and unable to stand the intense1 sunt H light and it therefore appcan to? be turned. It is well to say also "that in B some cases where the moisture is very. H abundant some of the mildewy fungi H attack the plants and in (heir wcakj M ciicd condition the mildew flourishes H forming a downy or wcblikc appear S ancc on the leaves. The remedy Um S such conditions is to have llidi spil H diaincd and made open and friable 'H and kept in' such condition by using. fl plenty of coarse manure to add humufj fl and work it in with ample cultiva fl $" "JS I I judge that the presence jpfSngl;s H Nrnis lids your soil fairly well ptul-l H died and a large amount of Organic. H matter must be worked into the soil in order to relieve this condition! Hicavy Sbils arc more likely "to be troubled in this manner than thos fl which arc light and well dr'aincdjL |