MISCELLANEOUS HINTS 57 



Planting Fruit Trees. — Directly the leaves fall 

 is the best time for planting all fruit trees. If the 

 soil is heavy and retentive of moisture, it should be 

 trenched tv/o feet deep, keeping the surface soil in 

 the same position it was before ; by this means 

 surplus water from heavy rains passes away more 

 quickly and the wood ripens better. Manure 

 should not be added to the soil except it is very 

 poor, then a small quantity of decayed horse 

 manure would be beneficial. 



Starving Fruit Trees. — It is a grand mistake to 

 plant vegetables right up to the stems of the fruit 

 trees ; cabbages in particular are so gross feeding 

 that they will soon starve the fruit trees into a 

 weakly state. 



Mixed flower borders have the effect of starving 



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fruit trees. They will grow well together for a few 

 years, but it is only a question of time for the 

 plants to get the mastery over the fruit. If inter- 

 mediate cropping is done at all, it should be at such 

 a distance from each other that the roots of the 

 flowers or vegetables cannot rot the fruit trees. 



When to spray Fruit Trees. — The secretary of 

 the Fruit Pest Committee recommends that syring- 

 ing with Paris green should be done when the leaf 

 bud is first developed, before the blossoming period, 

 and then again after the blossom has disappeared 

 and the fruit has formed. The ' Entomologist,' of 

 the Dominion of Canada, says : ' It decidedly pays 

 to spray fruit trees, as a protection against the 

 various enemies that attack them. This should be 

 done as soon as the petals have dropped, which in 

 most varieties, would be before there is a large 

 surface of foliage.' 



Canker in Fruit Trees. — This proceeds from 



