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Show Horticultural Hints Give the waste land a chance to earn its way by growing trees. The fifth orchard spray should be made about two weeks after the fourth spray. Do not neglect the orchards because a part or all of the fruit may have been destroyed. It is Mother Nature's provision that plants shall have a rest occasionally. Apple scab test plots in Cuyahoga county, Ohio, this year showed a control con-trol 95 per cent efficient where the spraying was thorough. In unsprayed plots scab infected 65 per cent of the crop. Clean up black knot in plum and cherry orchards by removing the knotted knot-ted twigs and branches, and then get rid of them by burning. Lime-sul- ; phur spray also helps prevent infec- j tlon in clean trees. I ... j Apple and other trees Injured by ' rabbits or mice should receive treat- ,: ment as soon as noticed. Where the j damage Is slight the bark should be i smoothed down and the Injured por- ; tlon covered with grafting wax. ' ... The earlier that fruit and oniamen-j oniamen-j tal trees of nil kinds are planted after the ground is dry enough to dig. the ' more successful will the planting be i The sum applies to bush fruits, slraw-; slraw-; berries and other herbaceous peren-! peren-! nials. i ... i The codling moth, on leaving the apple, spins a little cocoon in which It passes the winter. The apple maggot mag-got immediately disappears ill the ' ground, with no cocoon, until late .lime or early July of the fullo'.ving ; year. ... ' Time 5 sli-'trt for oT.-etive siraiii :" fruit tr't - wli! are inf.-sier wi"Lh ; fu;c. This i n f ; ; ,n is so rl i : i '.-::' t to i-rier' :ue that it requires a strung ; -I r.iy -Aliieii would kill the tree if ap-i ap-i p',;.-l M the ;. ;,-vowtn j ieaM.r, |