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Show Keep a close watch for rotting fruit and vegetables in the cellar. There are very few shrubs which need winter protection except roses. All our small fruits are benefited by some slight protection during the winter. win-ter. Raspberries are best protected by covering with clean straw or marsh hay. Burn the trash raked from the garden gar-den and orchard. Fire is a sure remedy rem-edy for bugs. It is usually better to protect raspberries rasp-berries over winter by burying in the soil In the more northern localities. When the apples are stored Bee that not a single rotten one Is included. If you have not already done so you should go over the orchard and rake up every rotten apple on the ground, haul them away from the orchard and destroy them. The Becret of dwarfing is to starve the trees. The Japanese produce oaks of great age but which are so small that they can be held in one hand like an ordinary house plant. If dead and unsightly limbs have not been taken off the trees, now Is a good time to do so. Paint with white lead the place from which the limb came Cut close to the tree, antl do a clean, smooth job. In the northwest the Etate experiment experi-ment stations are working on the production pro-duction of special dwarfed trees for the prairie regions. " Standard Stand-ard stock is grafted on certain roots such as very small growth as quince or wild apple. No man who does not thoroughly understand pruning should use the saw or knife except for the purpose of cutting out dead and cankerd branches and sprouts. Money will be taved by employing an experienced experi-enced man to prune your trees. |