Bagging Fruits. 353 



When it is desired to secure extra fine fruit, it ia 

 a good plan to tie up the fruits in paper bags. This 

 keeps away the insects and fungi (although the white- 

 ness of the bags is likely to attract thieves at night), 

 and the fruit is apt to ripen earlier, and to be of 

 higher quality because of the warmth which the bag 

 gives. If it is desired to bring out the blossoms of a 

 tree verj r early in the spring, it may be done by 

 tying grocers' bags upon the spurs when the buds 

 first begin to swell. The bagging of grapes is a fre- 

 quent practice when exhibition or test specimens are 

 desired. It is customary to pin the bags upon the 

 clusters when the grapes are a third to a half grown. 

 Bags made of mosquito netting are very useful later 

 in the season, when it is desired to secure the full 

 color of highly -colored fruit. 



SPECIFIC REMARKS UPON SPRAYING.* 



1. Spraying is only one of the requisites to suc- 

 cess in fruit- raising. Spraying has come into use 

 so quickly, and so much of the attention of teachers 

 and experiments has been given to it, that many 

 people have come to look upon it as the means of 

 salvation of our orchards. If spraying is to have 

 the effect of obscuring or depreciating the impor- 

 tance of good cultivation and fertilizing, then it 

 might better never have come into being. Trees 

 must grow before they can bear, and this growth 

 depends upon food and proper conditions of soil, 



Largely adapted from Bull. 101, Cornell Exp. Sta. 

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