BETTER FRUIT 



March 



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 



nose spray with 22 or 25 when buds are 

 swelling, when leaves are half-grown, 

 just before blossoming, when fruit has 

 set and repeat once or twice at intervals 

 of two weeks. If later applications are 

 required use 19. 



Hop — For hop-lice spray thoroughly 

 with 7 in June, and repat if necessary. 



Household Pests — For fleas, flies, mos- 

 quitoes, roaches, etc., use 12. Garments 

 infested with clothes moths may be 

 inclosed in tight box and fumigated with 

 1.3. If house is badly infested with any 

 insect fumigate with 13. 



Muskmelon — For striped cucumber- 

 beetle see under cucumber. 



Nursery Stock — For A-arious fungus 

 diseases spray with 16 when leaves first 

 appear and repeat at intervals of ten to 

 fifteen days until rainy season closes. 

 Fumigate with 14. 



Oats — For loose smut soak seed in 34. 



Onions — For smut practice rotation of 

 crops; transplanting seedlings; use 100 

 pounds of sulphur and .)0 pounds of air- 

 slaked lime per acre in the drills with 

 the seed. For downy-mildew try 16 

 when disease first appears and repeat if 

 necessary. For cut-worms use 4. 



Pea — For mildew spray with 2.5 when 

 mildew appears and rcjjeat once or twice 

 if necessary at intervals of ten days. 



Peach — For leaf-curl spray just as 

 buds are swelling with 16 or 25. For 

 blight and fruit-spot spray with IT or 

 25 soon after fall rains begin. If brown- 

 rot is severe follow with one or twfi 

 applications of 21 while fruit is coloring. 

 For San Jose scale apply 25 while trees 



are dormant. For twig-borer use 25 just 

 before buds swell. For root-borers, as 

 a preventive, wrap base of trunks with 

 paper or cloth, or paint them with poi- 

 soned whitewash; to kill borers dig them 

 out in fall and spring, or use 13. 



Pear — For scab, codling moth and San 

 Jose scale see under apple. For slug 

 see under cherry. For pear blight cut 

 out and burn all diseased branches. 

 Make cut several inches below where 

 disease extends and sterilize tools fre- 

 quently by dipping in 23. Paint cut 

 surfaces with 15, strong. 



Plum and Prune — For twig-borers and 

 root-borers see under peach. For leaf- 

 curl give good drainage, good cultivation 

 and grow leguminous cover crops in 

 winter. For brown-rot see under cherry. 

 For San Jose scale see under apple. 



Potato — For scab soak seed potatoes in 

 23 or 24. For potato dry-rot rotate crop. 

 For blight spray with 16 or 35 when 

 plants are six inches high and repeat two 

 or three times at intervals of two weeks. 

 For flea-beetles spray with one of the 

 food poisons. ] or 2 in 35, whenver the}' 

 appear. For wet-rot plant only sound 

 seed, practice rotation of crops, destroy 

 blighted plants as fast as they appear 

 and spraj' to preA'cnt t!ie flea-beetle 

 punctures. 



Quince — For leaf and fruit-spot spray 

 with 16 or 25 when blossom buds begin 

 lo open, again when fruit has set and 

 repeat al inlcrxals. of two weeks until 

 rainy season is over. 



Raspberry — Sec under blackberry. 



Rose — For mildew dust sulphur or 

 spray with 25 whenever it appears. For 

 leaf-spot spray with 16 or 25 when spots 

 first appear and repeat as necessary. 

 Fijr aphis use 11. or wash them off with 

 a stream of water from the garden hose. 

 For rust, burn fallen leaves in fall; spray 

 with 25 before buds start in spring and 

 repeat the application at intervals of ten 

 or fifteen days. 



Strawberry — For crown-miner and the 

 root-borer destroy infested plants before 

 May 1. For leaf-roller burn tops as soon 

 as possible after crop is gathered. For 

 leaf-blight spray with 16 or 25 when new 

 leaves start and repeat every ten or fif- 

 teen days until blooms appear. Mow 

 and burn tops as for leaf-roller. 



Sugar Beets — For leaf-spots or flea- 

 beetles spray with 25 plus 2 when spots 

 or beetles first appear and repeat two or 

 three times at intervals of two weeks. 

 For cut-worms, if bad, use 5. For aphis 

 use 11. 



Tomato — For flea-beetles spray with 

 16 plus 2 when they appear, or hang 

 papers from a string stretched just over 

 the plants. For blight use barnyard 

 coinposit, plenty of water, close planting 

 and stocky, vigorous plants. 



Violet — For blight use 16 or 25 when 

 it first appears; repeat once or- twice at 

 intervals of ten or fifteen days if nec- 

 essary. 



Watermelon — See muskmelon. 



Wheat — For smut soak seed in 30. 

 For Hesian fly practice late seeding. 

 For insects in stored grain use 13. 



