AugTist 3, 1907. 



HORTlCULTURi: 



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Shower bouquets admit of much originality of treat- 

 ment. A common error is to make too massive and the 

 trails too long; both these points, however, should be 

 adjusted according to the lieight of the recipient. Or- 

 chids sliould be arranged in natural sprays. Carna- 

 tions and roses have in sweet j>eas a close rival ; all may 

 be done in self colors with owu foliage and fern. As trails, 

 Asparagus plumosus is too heavy, A. Sprengerii a little 

 coarse, and smilax looks better than either. Flowers 

 on trails should be graduated in size from top to bot- 

 tom. 



The demand for sometliing new is a natural and a 

 growing one, and every florist has to provide daily the 

 clement of surprise. Often one's ideas are limited and 

 cramped by patrons who sometimes have to be indulged 

 against one's better judgment ; usually, however, buyers 

 will take advice if they feel they are in competent 

 hands. This is your opportunity to satisfy the desire 

 for novelty in a natural way, the time for initiative, 

 originality and resource. The contention now put for- 

 ward is that if one loves the work and puts pains and 

 brains into it monetary returns and public appreciation 

 will be the worthy reward and inevitable sequence. 



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Peach Blight 



Peach blight has been in California for over ten 

 years but has become prominent only during the last 

 two or three years; but bids fair to attain the propor- 

 tions of a national pest. Already this disease has be- 

 come very serious, especially in some of the counties and 

 the writer has seen large areas of the orchards com- 

 pletely killed by it. 



The peach blight is caused by a parasitic fungus 

 (coryneum beyerinkii) which is easily identified as it is 

 found mostly on the lower branches and fruit spurs. It 

 appears first in reddish circular or oval spots about one- 

 eighth of an inch in diameter, to be found on the out- 

 side bark. As the disease progresses these spots become 

 darker. Upon the badly affected branches will be seen 

 a gummy exudate oozing out just below the buds. The 



disease appears to l)c more destructive on the earlier 

 varieties. 



Many California peach growers have done nothing to 

 check this disease and consequently their orchards are 

 ruined. The blight is not especially hard to control if 

 attended to at the proper time, but if the orchard is 

 neglected it is only a question of a few years when the 

 blight will gain possession of it. 



The writer has carried on several experiments upon 

 the treatment of this disease and has had excellent 

 results from spraying early with Bordeaux mixture. 

 Under the California conditions this material should be 

 applied from the first to the middle of December, while 

 good results have even been obtained from spraying in 

 October and November. 



Up to the middle of December the mycelium which 

 is the active part of the fungus is on the outside of the 

 bark; after that the fungus becomes active and quickly 

 buries itself under the bark, whore it lives unmolested. 

 To try to reach it with a spray, in this condition, would 

 be only a waste of valuable material and time. I have 

 found that the best sprays to use are as follows : 



30 lbs. of copper sulphate (blue stone) 

 35 lbs. of un slacked lime 

 200 gals, of water 



I have also seen good results from the following 



sprays : 



28 lbs. of copper sulphate (blue stone) 

 30 lbs. of unslacked lime 

 200 gals, water 



15 lbs. of copper sulphate (blue stone) 

 25 lbs of unslacked lime 

 100 gals, water 



If your orchard was in a bad condition last year and 

 although yo\i liavc sprayed carefully this last year there 

 still remains considerable blight in it, do not get dis- 

 couraged but try another year, for it generally takes 

 two or three seasons to produce a good clean orchard 

 after it has been infected badly. When you once have it 

 thoroughly cleaned out you should never be troubled 

 very seriously with the blight again providing you spray 

 thoroughly with a good standard mixture of Bordeau 

 and above all spray 07i time. 



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