ANOTHER HARDY GARDEN BOOK 



The care of a few apple trees is not 

 great, but they must be attended to regularly 

 and carefully, if fine fruit or good crops 

 are to be expected. If the codlin moth or 

 the apple worm, which eat the foliage, should 

 attack a tree, they can be destroyed by 

 spraying with Paris green when the blossoms 

 have fallen. To prevent fungus and the 

 various microbe diseases, the trees should be 

 sprayed with Bordeaux mixture, first in 

 March, again when the blossoms have fallen, 

 and sometimes still again when the fruit has 

 formed, and the little apples turn down on 

 the stem. Every year, in March, all fruit 

 trees must be "grubbed," as the farmer calls 

 it, which consists in digging about the base 

 of the tree from one to three inches under- 

 ground, and taking out the worm and its 

 larvae, which will be discovered by the bur- 

 rows the creatures have made into the wood. 

 They are removed by running a piece of 

 wire into the small holes made by the borers 

 or cutting them out with a sharp knife. 

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