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from sprouting beds of last fall. Take those first which 

 show evidence of sprouting. Peach stones start later than 

 the stones of other fruits, and it is well to remember 

 this point. Harrow and cultivate fruit orchards after 

 ploughing. Spade in winter mulching, or better, fork it in, 

 and level any mice hills erected around trees the previous 

 autumn. Never cut the shoots of a young tree back 

 after the buds have swelled in the spring. Stake up 

 crooked trees. Kill all orchard caterpillars found. 



MAY. 



Use tree washes. Rub off all buds coming below 

 the new bud on budded trees. Give quince, and other 

 trees needing it, their hot weather mulching. May hand 

 thin some fruit. Kill all orchard caterpillars found, com- 

 mence to destroy curculio, and examine for pear tree 

 borers and apple tree borers and quince borers, and 

 watch well from this time out, dwarf pear trees, when 

 not planted below the quince junction. Continue culti- 

 vation of orchards. Look out for pear-slug on the 

 Peninsula and destroy it by some of the means given. 



JUNE. 

 Use tree washes. Build fires in orchards hot nights. 

 Do all things neglected or unfinished from May. Watch 

 pear-slug, curculio and all such pests. Destroy aphides. 

 Rub off supernumerary shoots on young fruit trees. 

 Look well for the evidences of peach and pear borers. 



