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should be grown in each hill, unless it is desired to propagate the 

 variety. 



Strawberries set this season should be cultivated once each week, 

 and if any blossoms or fruit appear they should be promptly re- 

 moved. 



Grapes set this season should be allowed to grow but one shoot. 

 Do not allow a multitude of sprouts to grow from the base of older 

 plants, but pull them off early while they are easily detached. 



In the orchard, trees set this spring will need constant care in 

 rubbing off all buds that start from the trunk and are not wanted 

 for limba. The first j^ear after planting trees are often swayed 

 about by winds and a funnel is found at the base, and as they get 

 established they are inclined to grow leaning away from the direc- 

 tion of the prevailing winds. This should not be allowed, or a fu- 

 ture unsightly and sun-scalded tree will be the result. Trample the 

 soil firmly into such funnels and keep the tree in an upright posi- 

 tion or leaning slightly towards the west or south. 



This month is preferred for light pruning to shape the heads of 

 young trees and thinning the tops of bearing trees, and if the trees 

 are watched and attended to from the beginning it will not be neces- 

 sary to remove any limbs larger than can be cut away with a small 

 pocket knife. If severe pruning is needed, it should not be done in 

 one operation, lest it prove a shock to the vitality of the tree. It is 

 better to remove a portion at intervals of two weeks. Where trees 

 are inclined to overbear, thinning of the fruit should be practiced; 

 the tree will be healthier for it, and the fruit much finer. All young 

 orchards do better if the ground is kept cultivated. Newlj^ planted 

 trees shovild be well mulched to enable them to withstand the heat 

 and drouth that is sure to come a little later, and if long, bare 

 trunks are exposed thej^ should be shaded by driving a board into 

 the ground a few inches away on the south, or the trunks may be 

 wrapped with strips of white cloth or paper, or a coat of lime white- 

 wash will do much good. Grafts set this spring should be looked 

 to, and sprouts that start below the graft rubbed off before they rob 

 it of nourishment. 



Young trees in the nursery should be cultivated and kept grow- 

 ing thriftily and kept pruned into shape from the start, and kept 

 from forming forks that will split down when the tree gets older 

 and carries a crop of fruit. 



This is the season when insects are getting in their work. Every 

 horticulturist should be well read up in entomology and able to 

 distinguish between friends and foe^. Spraying with Paris green 

 helps to prevent the work of the codling-moth, gouger and curcu- 

 lio. Washing the trunks of trees with strong soap-suds is a good 

 preventative against borers. See June calendar of 189G, page 252, 

 24:th volume, annual report. 



