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Your 

 Future 

 Orchard 



Would you be satisfied if 

 i'liu could get trees that 

 w ould make YOU an orchard 

 like the accompanying illus- 

 tration, in just TWO SHORT 

 YEARS after planting? You 

 can, if you will. This is a 

 two-year-old orchard near 

 Payette, Idaho, planted with 

 f)ur one-year-old budded tree 

 having a strong three-year- 

 old root. The superiority of 



this kind of tree is plainly evidenced. If you are contemplating the planting of an orchard, plant the tree that brings 

 you results; don't sacrifice satisfaction and dollars for a few cents in the original cost per tree. 

 Ask for "Descriptive Booklet of Our Plant" — it's free and helpful. 



OREGON NURSERY COMPANY, Orenco, Oregon 



TWO-YEAR-OLD ORCHARD AT PAYETTE, IDAHO, PLANTED WITH OUR YEARLING TREES 



(Owner's name furnished on request) 



all was done ran 66.7% in the Arkansas 

 orchards, .53% and 54% in the Virginia 

 orchards and 77.79% in the Michigan 

 experiment. 



My own recommendations for the past 

 season in the main were for five sprays, 

 as indicated from time to time in spray 

 warnings, 'phoned to growers or pub- 

 lished in local papers, and even this num- 

 ber of sprays under conditions prevail- 

 ing last year were inadeciuate to control 

 the worms, although some good results 

 were secured the past season with five 

 sprays. 



We may be confident that favorable 

 natural causes, such as parasites, together 

 with the good we are able to do by 

 working bands, scraping the rough tree 

 trunks for the destruction of larvae in 

 the spring, thinning wormy fruit, etc., 

 will give us many seasons in which three 

 sprays will be sufficient, but we will all 

 agree with the fruit grower, who, in 



True-to-Name Nursery 



Offers for fall 1910 a complete line of nurs- 

 ery stock, including all the leading commer- 

 cial varieties adapted to the Northwest. Our 

 trees are all grown on the best whole roots 

 and all buds and scions used are selected 

 from bearing and tested trees, which insures 

 not only early bearing, but trees true to 

 name. 



Write us for prices before placing your 

 order. W'e give a one-year subscriiition to 

 this jiaper with every order of $2.5.00 or 

 more. Address 



TRUE-TO-NAME NURSERY 



Phone 3002K Hood River. Oregon 



reply to the query as to the number of 

 sprays he is going to give, says, "Spray 

 as many times as it takes to kill the 

 worms." 



I am a firm believer in the importance 

 of the first, or calyx cup spray. In West- 

 ern Colorado it has certainly been far 

 more important in the past five years 

 than any one other spray applied. Every 

 experiment conducted in this valley has 

 taught this lesson most emphatically. 



A knowledge of the life history of the 

 moth has taught us that the reason for 

 filling the calyx cup with poison is the 

 fact that a high percentage of first brood 

 worms enter the blossom end of the 

 fruit. Seasons vary, however, as to per- 

 centage entering the calyx end of the 

 unsprayed apples. In my work at Fruita 

 a few years ago about two-thirds of all 

 wormy fruit was wormy at the calyx in 

 unsprayed orchards, yet by proper spray- 

 ing the first time the calyx worm holes 

 were reduced to practically none. 



This year, on June 18, while only first 

 brood worms were present, 201 apples 

 were picked from an unsprayed Wine- 

 sap, 192 being wormy. Of the 192 wormy 

 apples 133 were wormy at the calyx, or 

 69%, and 176 were wormy at the side nr 

 stem, or 91.6%. These 176 side and 

 stem wormy apples, however, bore 351 

 worm holes, and only 27i/<% of all worm 

 holes were calyx holes. On the same 

 day 88.9% of the total wormy Ben Davis 

 on unsprayed trees on another place 

 were wormy at the calyx, but the side 

 worms were so much more abundant 

 than the calyx holes that they only rep- 



Washington 

 Nursery News 



APRIL, 1911 



This month closes a most successful season 

 of selling and delivering trees and marks the 

 commencement of growth on our mammoth 

 plant for 1911-12 delivery. 



All winter long our large crew was at work 

 grafting scions cut from bearing trees onto 

 pear and apple seedlings which were grown 

 in our own fields at Toppenish. This means 

 that we should produce the best lot of trees 

 this season ever grown at Toppenish, for our 

 home-grown seedlings were the finest ever 

 seen in the Northwest. 



Early in March our force "took to the 

 fields" to plant our apple and pear grafts, 

 seedlings, ornamental stock and seeds. In 

 I'rench crab apple seed alone we are putting 

 in ninety-five bushels, enough to produce 

 twenty million apple seedlings if we get a 

 good stand. 



One hundred to one hundred twenty-five 

 men and forty-six horses made quick work of 

 the planting, the water was turned onto the 

 mellow ground, the cultivators were started 

 and nature begun her work. 



The stock in the fields budded last season 

 is already making a fine growth and we have 

 no reason to expect other than a splendid lot 

 of trees this season. 



We need more salesmen in certain unoccu- 

 pied territories. Drop us a line if you're 

 interested. 



We arc always pleased to meet our cus- 

 tomers. If you're passing through Toppenish 

 don't fail to stop off between trains and make 

 yourself known. 



\\'atch our ads from month to month for 

 nursery news. 



Washington Nursery Co. 



TOPPENISH, WASH. 



Salesnren Everywhere jNIore Wanted 



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