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More About Winter Spraying 



(See also page 270) 

 T\ELAW ARE: The common practice 

 here is to spray either in the late fall or 

 very early spring (mostly in the spring) with 

 either one of the miscible oils or with a lime- 

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Pennsylvania: We have found winter 

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 application being intended almost as much 

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Maryland: We included about twenty 

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 the trees were dormant in each case. The 

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