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Show (HORTICULTURAL When did you manure the orchard orch-ard last? Fix up the ladders before putting them away. Cover strawberries two inches deep with hay or straw. Grape vines may be trimmed as soon as the leaves have fallen. Get after the black knot on plum and cherry trees. Cut off and burn. Buy a pair of pruning sheafs. They can be used any month in the year. The easiest way to get rid of tent caterpillars is to cut down wild cherry-trees. cherry-trees. Protect newly planted fruit trees from mice and rabbits by a strip ot tar paper. Plow up the vegetable garden before be-fore freezing weather and let frost act on the soil. Gather up allxubb1-1' in the orchard and burn it. t.se rake and pruning knife freely. Many a desirable tree has been ruined ru-ined because the wire or label was not removed. Letting wormy and diseased apples rot on the ground is bad business. Better let the hogs in to them. . If you have not already done so, cover cov-er rhododendrons to protect them from alternate freezing and thawing. Keep on the lookout constantly to destroy insect eggs and cocounuts on the bark or trees and in rubbish piles. |
