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BETTER FRUIT 



February 



C. F. WHALEY 

 Originator of the 

 Ballygreen System 

 of Certified 

 Pedigreed Trees 



BALLYGREEN SYSTEM 

 OF PEDIGREE TREES 



Selected 



Certified 



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Combines the best practices of horticulture with honest, efficient business 

 methods, insures the fruit grower, making it certain that he will get the 

 kind of trees he orders and a very high quality of fruit when the trees bear. 



BALLYGREEN NURSERIES 



HANFORD, WASHINGTON 



H. W. REAUGH 

 Graduate 

 in Horticulture 

 Field Manager 

 Ballygreen Nurseries 



cations subdued the mildew on the stems 

 for two or three weeks. 



Sulphur was used both as a liquid and 

 dust application in a number of different 

 mechanical forms. Precipitated sulphur 

 and sulphur pulverized very fine in sand 

 gave good results as a liquid application, 

 but were much less positive when applied 

 as a dust. Commercial sublimed and 

 powdered sulphur, and also sulphur pow- 

 dered in lime were indifferent when used 

 as a dust application. Finely divided sul- 

 phur, applied with water, did not kill the 

 mildew when well established on the 

 stems, but stopped spore production for 

 a time. Three thorough treatments did 

 not cure the disease on a growing water 

 sprout where the fungus covered the 

 stem and both surfaces of the leaves. 



On twigs where the mildew only covered 

 portions of the under sides of the leaves, 

 thorough treatment caused most of the 

 new leaves to develop healthy. The sul- 

 phur treatment did not injure the tender 

 leaves, but caused premature falling of 

 some of the older or mature ones. 



Sulphuric acid was used in dilution, 

 varying from .1 per cent to 1.0 per cent. 

 One-tenth of one per cent had no appre- 

 ciable effect either upon the mildew or 

 the foliage. Dilutions stronger than 5 

 per cent injured the foliage, and did not 

 prove effective against the mildew. 



The soluble sulphides experimented 

 with were lime-sulphur solution, potas- 

 sium and sodium sulphides. These sul- 

 phides used in dilutions of 3 per cent, 1.5 

 per cent and 6 per cent sulphur content 



all scorched the tender growth, and 

 caused considerable falling of the mature 

 foliage. Established mildew was not 

 killed by the applications. 



Benzoic acid, ammonium, sodium and 

 potassium benzoates were used in dilu- 

 tions varying from one-tenth of 1 per 

 cent to 4 per cent benzoic acid content. 

 Dilutions less than .5 per cent produced 

 no injury, but those over 1.0 per cent 

 injured the foliage and 4.0 per cent was 

 very injurious. Established mildew was 

 not killed even by the strongest applica- 

 tions, and the young foliage on healthy 

 shoots was not materially benefited by 

 the weaker applications. 



Salicylic acid, ammonium and sodium 

 salicylates used in dilutions varying from 

 .1 per cent to 1.0 per cent salicylic acid 



A WARNING!! 



"Probably the most important lesson that the orchardists of the Northwest have yet to learn is that 

 cheap nursery trees are an exceedingly dangerous foundation on which to start an orchard — that a few 

 cents economy on such trees at the start is many many dollars' loss in the long run." 



Thus spoke one of America's greatest horticulturists on a recent visit to the Northwest. It is a warn- 

 ing that is well merited, for one can visit scarcely any of the newer fruit sections without being appalled by 

 the number of weak, sickly, undersized young trees that stand as incontrovertible proof of his warning. 



Any man who will plant anything but the strongest, most vigorous, healthiest trees — of known ances- 

 try — trees whose breeding for generations past insure prolific bearing and disease resisting qualities is 

 bequeathing a legacy of trouble to posterity. The first cost of a fruit tree is an insignificant cost, but 

 the quality and pedigree of that tree is a powerful, perpetual factor to your success and those after you. 



All of the nursery trees — apple stocks — of the Hood. River Standard Nursery Co. have three-year- 

 old root systems, with one-year straight tops — big, strong, healthy, vigorous trees that will grow when 

 properly planted, and which will bear from one to three years earlier than the so-called "yearling" tree so 

 promiscuously peddled about, and they will cost you little, if any, more. They are all propagated from 

 the highest earning and best trees of the world famous Hood River Valley — trees whose ancestry and 

 past performance is a matter of careful record. They are in every sense a thoroughbred, pedi- 

 greed apple tree. 



For the season of 1910-11 we can offer a limited amount of extra size apple only. Write for catalog and 



price list. 



HOOD RIVER STANDARD NURSERY CO. 



HOOD RIVER, OREGON 



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