Protection of Fruit Trees. 



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of purely practical bulletins planned to be issued in the future by the 

 Horticultural Department of the Station. This series of bulletins will 

 present in popular form that class of information so eagerly and per- 

 sistently sought by the hundreds of beginners in horticulture who write 

 to the Station for suggestions and assistance. 



I. A TRUE ORCHARD INCIDENT. 



Accompanied by a little daughter, who is deeply interested in and 

 delights in trees, plants and flowers and the furred and feathered fami- 

 lies which make their homes among them, the writer visited a certain 

 section of our young apple orchard growing under the grass-mulch 



Fig. 1. "Baby rabbits — Come and see !" 



method of culture on a steep hill slope at "Dale View." It was in 

 the late summer of 1908, the season at which the owners of young trees 

 should plan for protection from rabbits, which often begin testing the 

 sharpness of their teeth as early as November, while there is yet an 

 abundance of green vegetation upon which to feed. 



