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Show Horticultural ife, NoTea Spray apple and plum trees before the buds expand. An ounce of performance bears many pounds of fruit. A thing of beauty and a joy throughout through-out the entire year is a grape arbor. Sweet peas should be planted as soon as the ground can be worked. Do not uncover roses or other plants until their growth makes it necessary. neces-sary. The citrous fruit crop of the United States amounts to very near 25 million mil-lion dollars annually. Plowing in the garden when fields are too wet to work is bad for the garden. The value of the apricot and quince crop amounts to three million dollars annually. Cannas, caladium and dahlias may be brought from the cellar, divided, and started into growth now. Trim out dead branches or canes from the raspberry bushes and add plenty of manure to the patch. There is still time to top-work some apple or plum trees if the buds of the cions have not started to swell. There are 20 million pear trees in the United States with a crop value of eight million dollars annually. Three hundred thousand acres are devoted to small fruit crops, the au-1 au-1 nual crop is valued, at $24,000,000. j Clean up the front and back yards and plant a few shrubs and trees; at. least sow some good lawn grass seed. There are ?0 million plum and prune trees producing 15 million bushels annually valued at 10 million dollars. Both disease germs and. vermin may be kept down by fumigating the poultry house with sulphur once or ;wice a month. |