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THE GENESEE FARMER. 18T 



its foliage, the length and thickness of its young shoots, afford a very reliable guide as to 

 the vigor of a tree and its ability to bear a heavy crop. Some varieties are naturally 

 moderate and constant bearers, and if kept under good culture might never require 

 thinning, while others bear enormously some years, the fruit actually covering every 

 part of the tree and requiring props and supports to keep it from being torn to pieces. 

 Such trees cannot bear so in successive years, nor can they long remain healthy. Then 

 beside thinning the fruits, good culture must be givep them in their fruitful years, and 

 top-dressings of composts in a well decayed state. • Garden trees may have liquid manure 

 and mulching instead of top-dressing. Such care as this, not costing much, will not 

 only sustain the vigor and health of trees, but produce large, handsome, marketable 

 fruits. When a tree is loaded to breaking down, one-half "or three-fourths of the fruit is 

 Avorthless, and all the advantage of a large crop is lost. 



We consider this subject of much importance to the fruit grower. We know by 

 ample experience that it is. We crop our own trees heavily, perhaps too heavily ; but 

 every season we have to perform a thinning process, and we should consider the neglect 

 of it nothing' less than the wilful destruction of our trees. 



GARDEN AND ORCHARD HINTS FOR JUNE. 



Garden crops w"ill now be getting forward rapidly and require clean, thorough culture* 

 An occasional application from the liquid manure tank will be of great service. It 

 should always be applied in the evening. Strawberry beds and dwarf garden fruit trees 

 in full bearing may be greatly benefitted by the same treatment ; so may roses, or any 

 other flowering plants in poor soils. Buds and grafts will need looking to, and all 

 shoots from the stock below them rubbed. Tying up may be necess£^ry in some cases. 

 Young trees being teiined into particular forms, require frequent attention in the way of 

 pinching to regulate the growth and remove misplaced or irregular shoots. 



The first of this month is a good time to turn out bedding plants, such as Verbenas, 

 Petunias, Salvias, Heliotropes, Cupbeas, Lantanas,Veronicas, &c., &c. All these plants 

 produce the finest effects when planted in groups or masses, in figures cut in the lawn. 

 The soil should be mellow and rich, and the plants turned out of pots so as not to disturb 

 the roots, and they will go on and blossom immediately. 



Dahlias may be put out now and through the Avhole month. 



Lawns, to be worthy of the name, require to be mowed every two or three weeks at 

 least. No matter how good the foundation in the way of soil and gi-ass, without frequent 

 and very close mowing, and an occasional rolling, a lawn is nothing better than a com- 

 mon cattle pasture, in fact not so sightly. 



Climbing Ornamental Plants of all sorts require constant care in the way of tying up. 

 The shoots should be neatly and tastefully arranged on the wall or trellis. 



Insects, in all departments, should have an unceasing warfare waged against them. 

 If they once get the upper hand, it is no easy matter to subdue them. 



The Curculio. — We hope among the thousand and one experiments being made to 

 discover a su7~e and easy way of combatting this indomitable foe to fruits, some one will 

 be successful. Shake them down and kill them is the most effectual way we know of 

 to-day. 



We wish to collect information in regard to the ripening of fruits in different latitudes 

 and localities. Will our friends aid us ? Make rough notes of fruits as they ripen, and 

 send them to us. 



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