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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



April, 1909 



Oxide of Zinc is unalterable even 

 under the blow pipe 



This is LeClaire, 



The Famous House-Painter Philanthropist, 



of Paris. 



Who because of the sufferings of his workmen from the use of 

 old-style paints, introduced 



OXIDE OF ZINC 



as a house-painting material. A monument in his honor stands 

 in the Square des Epinettes. 



LeClaire's invention made house-painting healthful to painters. 

 It also transformed painting from hap-hazard to certainty. 

 Durability, economy, beauty and convenience in paint came 

 with Oxide of Zinc. 



Does your paint contain zinc? 



The New Jersey Zinc Co. 



National City Bank Building 

 55 WALL ST. NEW YORK 



We do not grind zinc in oil. A list of manufacturers of Oxide of Zinc Paints mailed on request. 



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tree planted with the whole root system. I never 

 bother the trees after they are set except to keep 

 the suckers cut away from the base of the trees 

 near the ground, or below where the trees were 

 budded. 



WHEN AND HOW TO PRUNE 



The pruning of one-year-old trees takes place 

 in the spring after they begin to grow — not earlier 

 — for trees prematurely cut back sometimes sprout 

 out below the bud. and no shoots will appear above 

 it. Cut above the last bud (or wherever necessary 

 if the first bud is too low) to about fifteen inches, 

 and leave about four or five branches three inches 

 in length to each tree. If there happen to be only 

 two limbs, cut off one close to the trunk and the 

 other at the height at which you want the tree 

 headed, so as to prevent the formation of a fork that 

 will later prove ruinous. 



During the second year (the most important in 

 pruning peach trees) the tree must have enough 

 interior wood removed to give it a bundle shape, 

 and the limbs cut back as evenly as possible, but 

 always above a bud that will force the new growth 

 outward and not inward toward the axis of the 

 tree. 



Saw or cut off the branches close to the limbs or 

 trunk of the tree in order to prevent a snag which 

 will not heal over until the tree grows around its 

 base, during which time the snag is decaying. A 

 defect in the limb is thereby produced which may 

 cause it to break when subsequently loaded with, 

 fruit or sleet. 



The same pruning system is kept up during the 

 third and fourth years; but of course the dead or 

 injured limbs are removed at any time. 



CUTTING BACK THE TOP 



Peach trees become "grown" after a certain 

 length of time, depending on soil conditions, culti- 

 vation, etc. The fruit buds form on one-year-old 

 wood so that new wood must be produced each 

 year in order to secure fruit the following season. 

 When trees are "grown" it is out of the question 

 to cultivate or fertilize to force new wood, so the 

 top must be cut back in order to give the roots 

 sufficient strength to again force fruiting wood. 

 Such pruning will also tend toward keeping down 

 brown rot by exposing the fruit to the sun, and 

 thereby hindering the development of the rot 

 spores. 



Professor L. C. Corbett, of the United States 

 Department of Agriculture, gives the following 



When pruning the second year remove enough 

 of the interior wood to give the tree a bundle 

 shape 



