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Show In picking apples be careful not to pick off the spurs. The best available material for fruit boxes is the white spruce. Tie up the currant bushes so the enow will not break them down. Good fruit and vegetables in clean, attractive packages need no salesman. sales-man. Spray the trees this fall for the San Jose scale if you have seen signs this season. Fall strawberries do not produce so great a number of plants as the spring varieties. Good young apple trees come high, but the poor ones are dearer than any other kind. Protect apple trees from sun scald by putting boards or cornstalks on the southwest side of the tree. Work up the surplus apples into cider and if there are grapes to spare, try the unfermented grape juice. The root louse often causes apple scab, and ashes or lime around the trunk of the apple tree will stop the ravages of this pest. The pear tree needs little culture. Encouraging strong growth only induces in-duces blight. A good sod surface and Blow growth are more favorable. The peach makes a good stock for some varieties of plum. It has a larger and stronger root system than most plum varieties. |