Bagging Fruits. 853 
When it is desired to secure extra fine fruit, it is 
«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 
vives. If it is desired to bring out the blossoms of a 
tree very carly 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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