Show MUCH DAMAGE BY 10 jut just before buds budis open plum tree should oe be thoroughly sprayed london purple Is favored lly ily HESSIN 1 I PUTNAM plume plums too often an uncertain aror en account of curcillo cur cullo may bo be easily brown grown every year unless destroy destroyed td by bt frost thia this la to truo true ot the tile old damson plume the rich flavor ot of which til lit too little known in the tile scramble for the newer japanese varieties H barly arly in lit march whilo while tho the ground lit still frozen hard mulch heavily with horse manure thie this servo serves tho the boubin purpose of maintaining fortuity fertility and keeping tho the frost in the ground until th thi lot 1 advanced that smelling budi buds will not got caught in a froat frosts just before the buda open the trees should be thoroughly sprayed tho writer line for a number of years used london purple without injurious ct of fecca to the foliage foll ngo n dessert aboon ful to ten ton gallons of water some somo of the other arsenates aro eald said to bo be less injurious to tho the leuven and rue especially recommended for the peach aa arsenate tu of lead the t A A aw an old plum tree neglected best used in proportion to two tr 50 gallons of water or parie paris green one ano pound to gallons ea llona or gallons of water by spraying just before the binds budi open and juat just after the blossoms blose oms fall there ie Is no danger of poisoning bec and experience shows it to bo be best alao also for the trull the second spraying should be followed by a third two weeks later small trees may bo be protected by dally daily jarring and gathering the beetle beetles as they fall into sheets prepared for the purpose eo but with largo large trees this thi method ie is scarcely practicable |