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Early Varieties: The Greensboro, 

 Carman, Hiley, Mountain Hose, etc., 

 and varieties of tlie same ripening 

 period shoidd receive the tirst and sec- 

 ond applications only as prescribed for 

 niidseason varieties. 



PLUM AND CHERRY SPRAYING 



.Japanese plums should receive the 

 same treatment as peaches having the 

 same ripening season. Soap should be 

 added in the third application to enable 

 the spray to stick to the smooth phun 

 fruits. 



Cherries .should receive the same 

 treatment as early varieties of peaches, 

 except that connnercial lime-sulphur 



solution, diluted at the rate of one gal- 

 lon to forty gallons of water, should 

 be used in place of the self-boiled lime- 

 sulphur. Where leaf-spot has been 

 severe this solution should also be used 

 in the fruit treatment. l<"or the control 

 of leaf-spot, an application of the 

 diluted lime-sulphur shoidd also be 

 made as soon as the fruit is picked. 



I'lums otlier than the .lapanese varie- 

 ties should receive the treatment out- 

 lined in the i)each sclicdiile. excel)! Ihat 

 connnercial lime-sulphui' solution di- 

 luted at the rate of one gallon to forty 

 gallons of water is to be preferred to 

 the self-boiled lime-sulphur. 



SPRAY MATERIALS 



Arsenate of Lead: This arsenical 

 comes on the market in paste and pow- 

 dered form. In orchaid spraying the 

 paste is used at the rate of two pounds 

 and the powdered lead at the rale of 

 one pound to fifty gallons of water or 

 fungicide, as dilute lime-sulphur solu- 

 tion. When used in water without a 

 fungicide, the milk of lime made from 

 slaking two or three ixnuuls of stone 

 lime should always be added for each 

 lifty gallons of spray to obviate danger 

 of burning fruit and foliage. This poi- 

 .son may be obtained of various manu- 

 facturers or usually of local seedsmen, 



