46 Fruit Culture. 



Wild Goose. Yellow Egg, 



Miner. Pond's Seedling. 



Blecker's Gage. Bradshaw. 

 German Prune. 



D. S. GRIMES: The Weaver, Miner, Wild Goose, Lom- 

 bard, Jefferson, Coe's Golden, German Prune, are all good 

 and profitable for both orchard and garden. For orchard 

 planting the trees should not be over two years old from 

 the graft or bud. The trees come early into bearing, and 

 the fruit always finds a ready market. The plum is budded 

 on peach stock with much less difficulty than on plum stock. 

 Plum trees budded on peach stock can be purchased of 

 nurserymen for almost one-half the price of those on plum 

 stock, and for this reason nearly all the plums sold over the 

 country by agents are budded on the peach, and are not 

 sufficiently hardy for the north. Plum, on plum roots, will 

 stand almost anything, from an Arctic wave to a street cow. 

 There is no fruit more profitable. 



Authorities agree, thus far, as to the entire absence of 

 black knot or curculio, but it is not to be expected that our 

 country will always be so favored. Year by year, as fruit 

 culturists and gardeners know to their sorrow, new enemies 

 make havoc with crops. It is well, therefore, to be on the 

 watch, and to guard against allowing their spread, if once 

 they should appear. Authorities describe the black knot 

 as "a black, puffy, irregular swelling on the twigs and 

 smaller limbs of the tree." The sole remedy is to cut off 

 and utterly destroy all such diseased twigs and limbs early 

 in the season; if delayed until late in summer it will not 

 avail ; the tree will perish, as the fungus if such it be 

 attains its greatest development by this time, and has fatally 

 affected the whole tree. 



The Curculio is a small dark-brown beetle with spots 

 of yellow and black. The most simple method of protect- 

 ing the crop from them is by spreading cloth beneath the 



