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The question- frequently arises, when to ,prune. Among the earlier horticulturists this question was often answered as follows : Prune when your knife is sharp. This is a comparatively safe method to follow with most plants, but where the problem involves the management of extensive commercial plantations it is not so easy to prune in […]

“We receive trees many times that are started to leaf out and with very little packing around the roots,” writes Benton Gebhard of Michigan. ” The roots are dry and many trees are fatally injured when they get to their destination. Sometimes we immerse these roots in warm water to revive them. ” The roots […]

” On account of the nature of the land at my disposal for nut orchards,” writes Dr. Robert T. Morris of New York, “it was necessary to devise some labor-saving plan that would cover the whole ground in a general way. The 200 acres set out to nut trees consist in part of open tilled […]

” Tillage burns out the humus and calls for a new supply. It lets the air in, like opening the drafts of a stove. The higher the state of cultivation,” writes Prof. G. F. Warren of the College of Agri-culture of Cornell University, “the more humus needed. We must supply this either in barnyard manure […]

” The roots should never be exposed for any length of time to the sun and wind, and should always go into the soil wet. In the morning, we take up about the number of trees that can be planted before noon and prune the roots. These are placed on a sled or wagon and […]

The first few years are the most critical of an orchard’s existence, because neglect is more likely to occur and the injuries done at this time can, in many cases, never be overcome by subsequent good care. In discussing this question Prof. V. H. Davis of Ohio State University gives his experience as follows: ” […]

Two of the important questions with the fruit grower today are: Where can I get the kind of fruit trees and select them to my own liking? Orlando Harrison of Worcester county, Maryland, declares there is but one answer to the questions : ” Go yourself to the nursery and be convinced whether you are […]

” Upon the care we give our plants and bulbs during the fall depends in a great measure the joy we will get from them in the year to come,” writes H. Hunt. ” Neglected then, they will be so weakened by the long, cold winter that a whole season will be required in which […]

” Nearly everybody keeps house plants, more or less,” writes Mrs. E. B. Murray of Saranac county, New York, ” but how few have flowers all the time or even more than now and then, and yet it is a comparatively easy thing if one only knows how. As to quantity and selection it is […]

” Generally a few thrifty geranium slips have been started early in the fall to produce flowers during the winter,” writes Cora B. Williams, “so there remains the work of preserving the old plants which have spent their vitality in almost perpetual bloom throughout the summer. Repotted for the sitting-room windows these old plants are […]