FRUIT CULTURE. 



Directions for Budding and Grafting. 



DESCRIPTION AND HABITS OF THE INSECTS INJURIOUS 

 TO FRUIT AND HOW TO DESTROY THEM. 



ERUITS of all kinds are now raised for pleasure and profit, upon 

 the large areas of land as well as in the small garden. There is 

 nothing that better rewards the patient, careful, industrious, per- 



(g) son, for the time and labor spent than in caring for a large or 

 small quantity of fruit bearing plants or trees. 



A knowledge of how to bud or graft is often desirable. If a neighbor 

 or friend has some very choice variety of fruit and you take a fancy that 

 you want to add that variety to your stock, through his kindness of giv- 

 ing you a few buds or grafts, you can change a tree bearing an unde- 

 sirable variety to a more desirable one, and it will bear fruit in much 

 less time than would a young tree procured of a nurseryman. 



It is only necessary to be handy with tools and careful and 

 painstaking to be able to succeed at ordinary budding and grafting. 

 A little practice and study will enable even the man of moderate intelli- 

 gence to make a success of this work, thereby saving many dollars as 

 well as improving the fruit upon his farm or garden. 



Then while he is walking about his garden or farm, he may see 

 numerous bugs, flies, caterpillars, and various winged insects. If he 

 were acquainted with their habits, he would know whether or not they 

 were enemies to his fruit, garden, or orchard. Through the kindness 

 of the Department of Agriculture we have been enabled to give illustra- 

 tions of many of the common enemies, and the best remedies for de- 

 stroying them. 



