48 HINTS ON PROFITABLE FRUIT GROWING. 



paper or rag round the stem of the trees, covered with a 

 mixture of tar and cart grease, is also recommended. If 

 put round by the end of October, and renewed every 

 week, if needful, for a few months, this will catch the 

 female moth as it rises to deposit its eggs. 



Quick (powdered) lime is one of the most useful 

 preventives to nearly all complaints of fruit trees. It 

 will protect apple trees from winter moth, and will save 

 the plum and currant buds from the birds, if carefully 

 scattered monthly during winter over all the branches. 



It is needful to exercise all the caution possible in 

 advance in grappling with this question of the diseases 

 that affect fruit trees. The entire year is lost if the 

 trees have lost their crops, and even that of next season 

 is usually imperilled, if the leaves are much affected or 

 eaten by caterpillar or other pests; whilst the buds 

 cannot mature well if the insects have infested the 

 leaves. To be forewarned is to be forearmed. 



Powdered sulphur is a splendid specific for mildew, 

 and should be applied in advance whenever expected to 

 prevail. It is equally good to keep off red spider in the 

 greenhouses, if scattered over the pipes or on the window 

 sashes in summer (inside). 



By all means study to prevent diseases and depredations 

 from all the foes of fruit-growers, by studying and 

 watching the most likely dangers ahead ; and lock the 

 doors before the grapes are stolen, when you grow them. 



