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animal can come to it. As soon as any worms appear 

 on the bushes, a little of the solution is sprinkled on the 

 leaves. The bushes are growing luxuriantly. I pass 

 along the rows every few days and pinch off the terminal 

 buds of all the shoots that have attained a growth of five 

 or six inches in length. Six inches in length of new 

 wood is sufficient for producing all the fruit that can be 

 matured. If the growth starts up again, the terminal 

 buds are pinched again. By pinching off the terminal 

 buds the sap that would make an excess of wood, in long 

 and slender stems, will be diverted to the development 

 and maturity of fruit-buds for the crop next season. 

 There is no advantage in allowing twigs to grow long 

 and slender, and having on them many weak and feeble 

 fruit-buds. A short, stocky twig full of strong and well 

 developed buds will produce twice as much fruit as a 

 long and slender twig, whether the twigs be apple, pear 

 or other tree. 



Many apple and pear trees are allowed to use up 

 nearly all the vital energies of the tree, by way of pro- 

 ducing an excessive growth of long and slender twigs. 

 I have a light pruner at the end of a long pole, with 

 which the long twigs at the tops of trees can be clipped. 

 I attend to this cutting back and pinchmg off in every 

 month during the growing season. Sometimes a second 

 growth will start up late in autumn. I always pinch 

 this, and direct the upstart to go to developing fruit- 

 buds. Last season my peach trees seemed determined 

 to make an unnecessary length of twigs ; but I pinched 

 and cut off the terminal buds, and continued to repeat 

 the operation until the trees ceased to grow. The twigs 

 thickened and the fruit-buds developed admirably — full, 

 large and strong — so that the intense cold of winter did 

 not damage them ; and at the present writing the trees 

 are literally loaded with fruit. Pruning and pinching 

 for growth of twigs or for fruit-buds must be done when 

 the trees are growing. The reason why some apple trees 

 will bear fruit only every alternate year, is that the en- 

 ergies of the tree can not produce a large crop of fruit 

 and a crop of buds in one season. If half the fruit could 

 be plucked off when it is small, the tree would bear 

 every season. To prove this assertion, let the young 

 fruit be all plucked off of one side of a tree top and al- 

 lowed to mature on the other side, and it will be seen 

 that the side of the top from which the young fruit was 

 plucked will be filled, the next season, with fruit. By 

 this means, a fruit tree can be made to produce fruit on 

 one side one year, and on the opposite side the next 

 season. — Ess. E. Tee. 



As to spraying apple trees with the arsenites, to de- 

 stroy the codlin moth, I am satisfied from the testimony 

 of those who have tried it, and the common sense there 

 is in it, that we all shall have to practice it, either volun- 

 tarily or by statutory compulsion. I think it is settled 

 beyond question that spraying apples in early spring de- 

 stroys codlin moth. — A. J. Bracelin, Michigan. 



The Shiawassee apple was brought from Shiawassee 

 county, Michigan, from a seedling of the Fameuse, 

 thirty years ago. The fact that so many orchards of the 



Fameuse were grown in the vicinity where it originated, 

 gives a supposition that it originated from seedlings of 

 that variety. It has not been extensively planted, but 

 is an excellent apple.— T. T. Lyon, Michigan. 



For a permanent orchard of i,ooo, I would set the 

 following varieties : 5 Astrachans, 25 Chenango, 50 

 Hubbardston, 50 Twenty-Ounce and Fall Pippin, 100 

 each of Greening, Spy and Jonathan, 500 Baldwin. I 

 would set a few Seek-no-Further for those who believe 

 it to be the best eating apple on earth. The remainder 

 I would set to new varieties, as an educational feature. 

 — A. J. Bracelin, Afichigan. 



A Wild Bouquet, 



Clover-blooms and buttercups 



Gathered in the meadow. 

 Ferns, whose tender fronds of green 



Graced the woodland's shadow ; 

 Daisies white and starry too. 



Show their happy faces, 

 Trailing vines and grasses wild 



Add their pretty graces ; — 

 Columbine, whose drooping head 



Nodded in a corner, 

 Meadow lilies, deep and red 



Lend their color warmer ; — 

 Sweet wild roses, fair and pink, 



Found beside the river. 

 Kissed by breezes from the south — 



How they sway and quiver! 



Dear wild flowers ! 1 adore thee 



More than garden's graces, 

 More than stately lilies tall, 



More than pansies' faces ! 

 Children of the field and wood, 



Gipsy-flowers and cheery. 

 Ye are friends that come to me 



When the hours are dreary. 

 Ye bring messages of peace 



From the wood's deep arches; 

 Hope and courage from the fields 



And the meadow-marches. 

 For I- know that He whose hand 



Tends thee in the forest. 

 Comes to me in tenderness 



When my need is sorest ; 

 And I know that He whose love 



Guards the fragile blossom, 

 Will most surely comfort me, 



Resting on His bosom. 



—Harriet F. Crocker. 



Honest Packages. — The fruit-growers of South 

 Haven (Michigan) seem united now in the desire to have 

 not only honest measure, but honest packing as well. 

 At a late meeting of the Pomological society, they voted 

 unanimously to use only the full peck basket for peaches 

 and branded "full peck." Then they propose to go 

 still further and unite, with a trade-mark and grower's 

 name on the basket, to establish a home market, with a 

 vieweventually to have all fruit sold in Michigan. They 

 have sent invitations to the fruit-growers north and south 

 to join with them, and think it only a matter of time 

 when growers will see it to be to their interest to handle 

 their fruit at home, in this manner, and not, like the 

 Arab, with each man's hand against his brother. — A/U- 

 gaii Gazette. 



