Appendix III. 



APRIL. Finish grafting. Attend to tree labels, and renew if 

 necessary. Commence disbudding peaches at the end of 

 this month. 



MAY. Examine blossom for pests and spray with nicotine 

 washes if necessary. Examine grafts, remove suckers if 

 any, and sever the raffia which binds the grafts. Con- 

 tinue disbudding, lay in the young growths and thin out 

 the fruits of peaches. 



JUNE. Summer pruning commences. See Chapter III. 

 Spray trees a second time with nicotine and soap wash if 

 necessary. Commence budding, also fruit thinning. 



JULY. Continue budding and summer pruning. Thin 

 out fruit. Collect and burn, or use, if possible, apples 

 which drop to the ground. Make new strawberry beds 

 if required. Protect cherries from birds. Summer prune 

 red currants and white currants. Apply liquid manure 

 to trees in bearing. See page 34. 



AUGUST. Gather ripe fruit when it is quite dry. Make wasp- 

 traps by hanging jam jars partly filled with sweetened 

 water to the branches of trees. Destroy wasp nests if any 

 near at hand. If birds attack early apples provide water 

 in drinking trough for them, also hang ripe sunflower 

 heads to branches of trees. Cut out old raspberry canes 

 immediately after gathering fruit. Continue summer 

 pruning.. 



SEPTEMBER . Continue to gather ripe fruit. Root-pruning 

 should be done now, if at all. Fix bands to fruit trees 

 attacked by winter moth caterpillars. Order new fruit 

 trees if any required. 



OCTOBER. Plant all kinds of fruit trees during this month, 

 if planting is to be done at all. Insert cuttings of 

 currants and gooseberries. Gather and store keeping 

 apples and pears if frosts appear, but leave these fruits 

 on the trees as long as possible. 



NOVEMBER. Finish planting if this operation was delayed 

 by wet weather in previous month. Dig carefully 

 between fruit trees and apply a mulch. Cuttings may 

 still be made and inserted. 



DECEMBER. Prune all trees which require it, except 

 peaches and nectarines. Burn all dead wood and also 

 any diseased wood. Examine fruit in store and remove 

 any which show signs of decay. 



