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well, colored and ripe, not soft, wrapped at once in two thicknesses of 

 tissue paper and one of paraffine paper, and at once sent to the places 

 designated, with the variety, your name and county marked plainly on 

 the package. 



The peach, plum, cherry, apricot and nectarine need much the same 

 treatment as outlined for the apple, in care, cultivation, pruning, thin- 

 ning, girdling, picking and packing. The peaches should be thinned to 

 8 inches, except where clusters are wanted, and then thinned to 3 inches. 



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The plums need selecting and thinning to 4 inches, except for clusters, 

 and in that case to 2 inches. Cherries need clusters taken off so as 

 to make the other clusters much larger ; and specimens, except clusters, 

 need to have not more than three to five in a cluster. All these fruits- 

 need to be well wrapped the same as apples and then packed in berry 

 boxes, peach baskets and crates or one-third bushel boxes. All clusters 

 packed in cotton after wrapping. Cherries and plums should have their 

 stems. 



Fertilize the peach, plum and cherry : trees from 3 to 4 years, i lb. 

 muriate of potash and y^ lb. nitrate of soda ; 5 to 7 years, 2 lbs. muriate 

 of potash and i lb. nitrate of soda; 7 to 10 years, 3 lbs. muriate of potash 

 and 13^ lbs. nitrate of soda. Fertilizer for all the above fruits will de- 

 pend upon the vigor of the trees or plants. If very vigorous, then leave 

 off the nitrate of soda. 



EXTRA EFFORT FOR DISPLAY. • 



1st. During the summer train some extra strawberry plants in pots 

 for pot exhibit. 



2di. Raspberry, blackberry, currant, gooseberry and grape can be grown 

 through the bottom of pots and caused to root well enough so- 

 that the next year when wanted the vines can be cut off after 

 the fruits ripen and thp bushes will be beautiful pot plants- 

 loaded with fruits for show in 1904. 



3d. The apple, pear, peach, plum, cherry and quince, even, can be taken,, 

 and a fine fruiting branch put through the bottom of a large- 

 pot and filled with soil and kept moist with moss about the pot 

 so that the branch will be well rooted in the pot by fall, if the 

 branch is cut or lipped in the proper way so that it will root. 

 After the fruits ripen the branches can be cut off and this will 

 give beautiful little trees that will be a curiosity and an attrac- 

 tion when filled with fruit and placed on the tables. 



