THE GARDEN WEEK BY WEEK 



July Apple Scab. — The fungoid disease known as scab, 



1-15 which causes dark patches to form on the leaves, and 

 also patches, followed by cracking, on the fruit, tends to 

 spread year by year. It may be reduced considerably 

 by picking off any badly affected leaves and fruit, and 

 spraying with Bordeaux mixture (see Chapter I.). 



Aphis on Cherries. — A black aphis often attacks the 

 foliage of Cherries, establishing itself on the young 

 shoots, and injuring the tree by sucking out the sap. 

 The paraffin and soft-soap spray is a sure remedy for 

 this. 



Silver Leaf of Fruit Trees. — During recent years a 

 disease known as " silver leaf," owing to the grey, shiny 

 appearance which the foliage assumes when the trees 

 are attacked, has spread a good deal, principally among 

 the stone fruits, such as Peaches and Plums. It is 

 irregular in its action, sometimes spreading rapidly over 

 a whole tree, at others merely attacking one shoot, and 

 then making no more progress. A fruit grower who 

 sees this enemy appear had better hold no parley with 

 it, but cut out the affected parts at once and burn them. 



Grapes. — See that inside borders do not remain dry 

 for any length of time. Continue to close houses in the 

 afternoon, to afterwards damp down, and to ventilate 

 early in the morning. Vines planted this spring may be 

 stopped half-way up the roof. Those planted a year 

 previously may carry two or three bunches of fruit this 

 season. 



Strawberries. — It is best to gather Strawberries early 

 in the morning. The beds ought to be in full bearing 

 now. Fill some small pots with loam, sink them in the 

 ground round plants that are bearing runners, and fix 

 the plantlets on to the soil in the pots by means of 

 stones. They will root speedily. 

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