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soap thinned with water to a thick paint. If borers are present, a tea- 

 spoonful of sulphur and carbolic acid to a gallon of the soap mixture 

 can be added to advantage. 



5. Spray the trees with the approved remedies for the insects and 

 fungus diseases that attack the apple. Good results can not be ex- 

 pected unless a perfect and healthy foliage is preserved, and the fruit 

 will be of little value unless it is protected from the ravages of the 

 codling moth and apple scab. 



The above treatment is, of course, only suggestive, but as most 



orchards will be benefited if handled as recommended it is submitted 



for consideration. 



Prof. L. R. Taft. 



What Not to Plant. 



In past years the planting of trees and shrubs in the new West was 

 a matter of choice of what was desirable in our former home, as its 

 success or failure was an uncertainty and one thing was as likely to 

 succeed as to fail ; but now the list of both are so large thatany one can 

 plant and predict in favor of the result. Of old favorites in Eastern or- 

 chards there are none of their svinter sorts that are such here, in fact, 

 Eastern planters are now setting extensively the best Western sorts 

 and they with the shorter seasons will not ripen the varieties there, as 

 they do here. The Jonathan never gets the dark red color in New 

 York as in Kansas, so of Ben Davis, but they will be longer keepers 

 as a result, so they do in Colorado or anywhere much North of here. 

 But the early varieties do not make much difference, only they ripen 

 to suit the season where grown. Of apples that have been largely 

 puffed and proved of little value the Mann, Deleware, Red Winter, 

 Lawyer, White Winter Pearman, Red Winter Pearman are of very 

 little value. No man should cumber the ground with them. The 

 Sonlard Crab is too rank flavor for any use. Of pears the Idaho 

 brought forth as with the flourish of trumpets as the coming fruit, is 

 entirely worthless because the tree is so apt to blight; so is the Le 

 Conte but little better. The Japan Golden Russett pear is the Hawaii 

 renamed, a hardy tree, but the fruit is no better than a turnip. One of 

 the most advertised berries sure to disapoint here, is the Japan Wine- 

 berry. I have it on my place since first offered, and never saw a berry 

 on it. The Wilson and Wilson Jr., blackberry are no use here. The 

 list can be extended in many ways, and a list of good things should 

 be held up. The main cause of unprofitable orchards is planting 

 worthless varieties, planting too many kinds. For a family supply 



