THE PEACH ROT AND LEAF CURL. 



in the spring when the growth starts the 

 fungus also starts to grow, and the 

 young leaves and shoots are affected 

 with it. It is evident, therefore, that 

 this disease can only be routed by per- 

 sistent application of fungicides year after 

 year, by cumulative effect, if we like to 

 call it so. Results obtained from spray- 

 ing at the Ohio Station led to the fol- 

 lowing conclusions : 



1. That two applications of the Bor- 

 deaux mixture in a season favorable to 

 curl leaf, will sufficiently prevent the 

 disease to enable the tree to carry a 

 crop of fruit without very great loss 

 through dropping. 



2. That unsprayed trees, in a season 

 like 1897, especially of varieties suscepti- 



ble to curl leaf, can scarcely carry the 

 crop of fruit when suffering from such 

 injury to the leaves. 



3. That thorough spraying the preced- 

 ing season is even more effective in the 

 prevention of curl leaf than during the 

 season of its occurrence. 



The orchardist must judge by the 

 weather in April, whether to spray, for 

 upon such susceptible varieties as 

 Mountain Rose, Old Mixon, Globe, 

 Elberta, etc., two sprayings with Bor- 

 deaux mixture will prove profitable ; the 

 first of full strength, made just before 

 the blossoms open, and the second of 

 half strength, to be made just after the 

 calyx drops. 



HARDY FLOWER GARDENS. 



THESE are the matron's safe guard. 

 If the house master is called away 

 for the summer, or is ill, she has 

 a never-failing source of pleasure 

 in the thought that flowers will bloom 

 in the home grounds if she is unable to 

 tend them. The old gardens of our 

 fore-beares were always bright, and the 

 lesson of the past is also a good one for 

 the present. So many added treasures 

 too, lie at our hand. The Gypsophila 

 alone with the hardy Asparagus Brous- 

 soneti is an acquisition. And what is 

 finer about the walks than a bed con- 

 taining Rosemary, Southern-wood, 

 Lavender, Digitalis, Daisy, Campanula, 

 Linim Centaurea, Gaillordia, Humilus, 

 Stevia, Dictamnus, Pensteman, Ver- 

 bena, Hollyhocks, Bartonia, Aurea, 



Vaterian Acquilegia, etc. With a large 

 variety of these and a good rose bed, 

 we need never lack bloomers, no matter 

 what befals us. God has made these 

 flowers to be of service in our lot and 

 place, and we may carry the balm of 

 consolation through them to many 

 wounded suffering hearts if we will. 



Let us prefer them to fine feathers if 

 we are unable to enjoy both, and so 

 make the grand garden of life to blos- 

 som as the rose. 



One of the new Rambler roses in the 

 house is a treasure, and if nipped in the 

 bud by the frost, it will soon grow glad 

 and bright again. 



M. Agatha Hoskins. 

 Newport, Vt. 



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