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GEOEGE BTJNYAKD & CO.'S FEUIT CATALOGUE. 



The adaptability of the " Quinoe" stock for Pears, and the "Paradise" for Apples, has been fully 

 proved at the Chiswick Fruit Conference and competitive exhibitions. We illustrate from nature in the set 

 of Woodcuts below specimens showing the mass of roots these stocks produce on the surface, where they obtain 

 all the benefit of the sun's warmth, and stimulating action from manurial mulchings and waterings. The 

 secret of producing large and fine Fruit for Table or Exhibition is to have trees upon these stocks for Garden 

 culture ; to feed liberally when a crop is set, but not otherwise- 



Quince Stock 

 (for Pears). 



Wild Crab Apple Stock 

 (for Orchard Trees). 



Paradise Stock 

 (for Apples). 



Insects and Blights affecting Fruit Trees. 



Information is often asked on the above, and we therefore give a few general hints ; fuller particulars 

 can be found in " Fruit Farming for Profit." 



Aphides. — The Black Fly on Cherries is very injurious, and should have attention as soon as the leaf 

 shows curl and harbours any fly. If local, sprinkle with tobacco dust and syringe next day, and repeat 

 again in three days time. If general, wash with 2ozs. of shag tobacco steeped with loz. of soft soap in 2 

 gallons of hot water. Syringe well under the leaves in a warm state. If the growth is long enough, 

 dipping is most effectual, and economizes the liquid, or a stronger solution of the Green Fly mixture can be 

 used. 



Geeen Fly (White Fly, or Lice) on Plums and the Red Fly on Pears and Apples can all be treated as 

 for Black Fly at half the strength, or in place of tobacco 4ozs. of quassia chips can be used with the soft 

 soap. For'Peaches and Nectarines the mixture requires well diluting, as the young growth is very tender, 

 and two or three weak applications are preferable to one strong one, as that will often bring off the foliage. 

 It is best to do the work if possible in the evening and syringe next day with clear tepid water, to clean the 

 foliage. Other mixtures are Fowler's Insecticide, Gishurst Compound, Fir Tree Oil, and Nicotine Soap ; 

 which contain directions on each case, and are sold by most Florists and Seedsmen. 



Amebioan Blight (Woolly Aphis). — This is very injurious to Apples, and makes itself known by a 

 white woolly substance in the cracks of the bark and in the leaf axles, and at any wound in the bark. It 

 can be quickly got rid of on old trees by rubbing in Gishurst Compound, Soft Soap, and weak Parrafin with 

 a soft brush, "or by Fir Tree Oil. Or, on young and more tender trees, by mixing 1 gallon of warm water 

 to a pint of Jeyes Sanitary Fluid, in which 160 grains only of Corrosive Sublimate is stirred. This requires 

 care, as the latter is a poison. 



Bed Spideb — All fruit trees seem liable to this pest, which makes itself evident by the foliage losing 

 its green colour, and in Peaches and Nectarines assuming a whitish tinge. In Vines it can be cured by 

 placing sulphur on the hot water pipes, and syringing freely with tepid water the next day. if the fruit is 

 not too far advanced. Trees in the open can be syringed with the compound named for Aphides, of various 

 strengths, washing with tepid clear water afterwards. It attacks the under side of the foliage, and it is 

 therefore necessary to keep the syringe low down, as unless the the leaves are well saturated the minute 

 insects escape. In dry spring weather Gooseberries are often taken with it before the foliage is developed. 

 Timely attention will save the crop, which would otherwise fall from want of nourishment. For Field crops 

 41bs. Liver of Sulphur, 41bs. Soft Soap, to 100 gallons of water, is a good wash. 



N.B. — These matters are treated at length in our " Fruit Farming for Profit," chapter 20, and also in 

 ,! A Tear's work on a Kent Fruit Farm," 



