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Show OCOCXDCOCOOC)COCKXX)C)COOCOCOO Horticulture Facts OOOOOOCOOOCOOOOOOOOOOCOCOQ Wood ashes are a good fertilizer to apply In . small quantities to fruit plants. Under no circumstances must young dewberry plants be allowed to battle with weeds. Sheets spread beneath plum trees to catch the curcullos make the Insects easy to gather up and destroy. Lead arsenate alone, or In combination combina-tion with lime, should never be applied to peach trees during the growing season. sea-son. Keep bug poison mixed and handy. Bugs are early In early springs, and worse yet, they stay late. The longer the season the more they can breed. Get at them early. The plum requires a little more water wa-ter than other tree fruits, and cultivation cultiva-tion and cover crop are necessary to give sufficient moisture. Grape rows should be about ten feet apart' for most varieties. The vines should be set from eight to ten feet apart in the row. Strong growing vines should be set ten feet apart. Despite the fact that plums want s rich soil, probably most of the fertilizers fer-tilizers used for this fruit are wasted i |