ANOTHER HARDY GARDEN BOOK 



and will succeed better in dry seasons than 

 other fruit trees. Like the apple, they 

 should be three years old when planted and 

 be set twenty-five feet apart. The trees 

 should be sprayed with Bordeaux mixture 

 when the blossoms have fallen, and again 

 when the fruit is well formed. If aphids 

 appear on the new shoots, they can be de- 

 stroyed by spraying with tobacco water, 

 which is made by steeping tobacco stems in 

 a pail of water until it has become dark 

 brown in color; if the curculio, the enemy 

 also of the plum tree, appears, a sheet 

 should be spread upon the ground under 

 the tree, which should then be well jarred. 

 This will bring down not only the affected 

 fruit, but also the curculios; the insects and 

 the bad fruit should be burned. This oper- 

 ation will take but a few minutes, and after 

 the blossoms fall, should be repeated every 

 day for a couple of weeks. It must be 

 remembered that all fruit which is to be 

 kept for a few days, or sent to any distance, 



