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It requires a sharp jar on the trunk, or on the end of a 

 limb sawed oft*. It should be done early in the morning, 

 before the curculio is fairly waked up. lie falls more 

 readily when cold. Lay sheets under the tree and pour 

 the chaps into hot water. This process gets rid of the 

 insects, but it is also advisable to collect all the stung and 

 fallen fruit and destroy it, or let the pigs and poultry do 

 the work for you. 'Jarring' and the ' pig and poultry ' 



very thick and full of weeds. The gardener remarked to 

 the person who was watering : ' You need not water 

 them ; they are very thick ! ' His idea evidently was that 

 the plants and weeds shaded the ground I " 



" The truth is that the weeds alone evaporated the wa- 

 ter nearly as fast as he carried it, and had he pulled out 

 the weeds and thinned the plants, less rather than more 

 water would have been required." 



TOMATO PLANT WHEN SET OUT. 



remedy, if faithfully carried out, would soon lessen the 

 number of curculios, and we should again be able to raise 



plums and apricots." 



" Strawberries promise well. I have just given them a 



little superphosphate and sulphate of ammonia, and to- 

 Imorrow I intend to mulch them with the clippings of the 

 awn. Tan bark is better if it could be had." 



" Things are suffering for want of rain. The fly is eating 

 lp these cabbage and cauliflower plants. If we had a good 

 shower they would grow so fast that the flies could do 

 ittle damage. Vigorous growth is a grand remedy 

 igainst most of the ills that plants are heir to." 



" Oh yes ; you can water, but it takes time, and water- 

 ng as ordinarly done, is useless. If you water at all, it 

 ihould be done thoroughly. The ground must be soaked 

 o the depth of the roots, merely sprinkling the surface is 

 vorse than nothing." 



" It is astonishing what ideas people have about water- 

 ng. I saw a couple of men, the other day, watering 

 lome celery plants in a cold frame that had been pricked 

 ut and were thin on the ground. On another part of 

 he frame there were some cabbage plants that were 



TOMATO TINE TRAINED AND IN BEARING. 



"Plants suck up water out of the soil and evaporate it 

 through their leaves into the atmosphere with a rapidity 

 that few people have any idea of. When I was at Roth- 

 amsted we made some experiments to determine how 

 much water plants evaporated during their growth. The 

 results showed that an acre of wheat would evaporate on 

 an average 4111 lbs of water per day, while an acre of 

 clover, which covers the ground more closely, evaporated 

 8600 lbs per day." 



"You doubt it? "Well, I cannot help that. I have no 

 doubt that in our dry climate the evaporation is even still 

 greater. You must recollect that a good days rain, say 

 one inch, brings 120 tons of water per acre. We have, in 

 this section, about thirty inches fall of rain in a year, and 

 this is equal to an average of 19,700 lbs of water per day 

 on each acre." 



" Put up that two quart watering pot. It rains ; 

 it rains ! Hail, blessed rain ; offspring of Heaven ! Wel- 

 come to earth ! thrice welcome to this hot and dusty gar- 

 den ! ! Now for transplanting cabbage, and cauliflowers, 

 and celery! Take them up with a 'ball" and they will 

 not know they have been moved." 



