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Show WINTER PROTECTION OF TREE Guards Should Be Established Against Any Attacks of Rodents Coal and Wood Ashes Help. But little work can be done in the orchard during mideinter Unless the season is exceptionally warm. Where there is danger of the gnawing of young trees b' rabbits or other rodents ro-dents the trunks, unless protected by patented shields of some kind, may be wrapped in cloth or surrounded by cornstalks held in place by twine. Mulching with coal and wood ashes helps greatly to protect the bases of the trees from both mice and borers, often smothermg out the young larvae lar-vae of the latter, and the ashes are, besides, one of the best of fertilizers. Some winter work on the orchard may be done in the comfort of the living liv-ing room, and this is in making a map of the newly set orchard, with each variety of tree clearly indicated in case the labels on the trees becoma detached. Also a new set of labels may be prepared pre-pared for all trees and shrubs, the particular varieties of which may be forgotten if the work Is longer neglected. neg-lected. A tree or plant is no longer merely an ap.'.i'1, cherry or pear tree 1 or a rose bush or lilac or syrinra. It has its own particular varietal name, and this its grower does not generally wi.-h to be ignorant of. |