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Show HORTICULTURAL NOTES. Crates, barrels and boxes for cellar cel-lar storage must be clean and dry. Ashes spread under pear trees are good as a tonic. Most soils lack what ashes give. Fruit and vegetables retain a much richer flavor If burled than If stored In the cellar. To prevent rabbits from gnawing the bark and limbs from small applo trees, spray with sonpsuds. Pruning during I he dormant season sea-son f-ncourages vegetable grewth. Weak trees may bft lnv!gornted by proer pruning when dormant. Leave the fruit nut In some cool building till about time for a hard freeze. It will keep belter than If put down cellar when first picked. When potatoes and apples are stored stor-ed In a cellar look at them every few days all winter and sen that the ventilation Is just right. Prune out old canes of raupberrles snd blackberries and burn them. Thin the hills to three or four ahoota. Cultivate, Cul-tivate, aud add acme manure to the soil. To secure maximum crop of fruit of the best quality It is necessary for each tree In the orchard to have a maximum amount of vigorous fruit bearing surface. For wounds on trees, melt rosin and pour three parts Into one part of previously warmed erud petroleum. This will not run In warm weather nor crack In cold. If you intend to plant a new orchard orch-ard buy the trees which are best adapted to your climate and soil. Consult Con-sult with the orehardlst la your state ei pet linen t station. Orchardlsts who have never used dynamite should b sure to get all possible information from the manufacturers manu-facturers of the explosive before attempting at-tempting to use it. |