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skllled budders, and of other essentials. Within three years we nay even 

 find an over supply of certain trees particularly peaches. One nursery 

 plans to bud a million peach trees this summer and enough of other fruits 

 to bring the total up to two million. Ve may even find, within five 

 years, gome sizable brush piles of unwanted stock. 



Misnamed Trees Much Less Common, While an occasional mixup is almost 

 unavoidable in view of the inexperienced help, the need for getting budwood 

 from a number of sources, etc*, it is gratifying to know that most nurseries 

 are keeping a close check on their budding operations and have the rows well 

 labelled. Large scale mixtures, such as the Wolf River-Mclntosh deal of a 

 generation ago, are fortunately a thing of the past. 



Plums on Peach Boots. It is a common practice among niirserymen to bud 

 some of their plums on peach seedlings instead of plum seedlings for 

 planting in light soils. Such trees are more likely to thrive since the 

 root system of a peach tree seems better adapted to a sandy soil than that 

 of a plum tree. 



Japanese Beetles Show Preferences. In certain nurseries where the 

 Japanese Beetle is a menace, as for example in Maryland axxd Virginia, some 

 fruit trees are heavily attacked while others nearby are quite generally 

 avoided. Sweet cherries and plums are among the favorites and certain 

 varieties seem to be preferred. An occasional tree of apples or peaches 

 in the nursery row may show a large colony of beetles, vith 50 or more 

 on a single tree. DDT is being used quite effectively. 



A ITursery Oddity. The 5-in-l tree, so highly praised in the 

 advertisements, is an easy means of getting the amateur's dollar (and then 

 some). But one nurseryman expressed his private opinion that it isn't 

 laioh of a tree. 



Espalier Peach Trees. In one New York nursery, peach trees in 

 considerable numbers are trained by attaching part of the branches to a 

 fan shaped s\q)port, A group of Italian women were dexterously preparing 

 these trees for the would-be fruit grower vho wants to be different even 

 though he must pay five dollars for the privilege. 



Trees Respond to Poultry Manure. In one nursery where trees are 

 making excellent growth it is a common practice to fit the soil by applying 

 a liberal coating of poultry manure sowing soy beans to be plowed under when 

 about knee high, A striking comparison was observed where the supply of 

 poultry manure gave out and one side of the block was left unfertilized. 

 The trees were about a foot shorter in that area* 



OORHEOTIOIT ; 



A mistake was made in the title of the first article in June rruit Notes. 

 It should have read "The Unusual Bloom" instead of the "The Annual Bloom," 

 The writer's scribbling was at fault. His secretary was vinable to decipher 

 it, and the stencil didn't get checked before the issue was run off. 



