1914. 
THE) RURAL. NEW-VUKKi£K 
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Screen Dome for Melons. 
The cut shows a screen dome which 
I use in growing melons with good suc¬ 
cess. They are of great advantage in 
several ways, as they protect the young 
plants from strong cold winds, also the 
seed from field mice when planted. They 
can be purchased from any retailer in 
hardware for about three cents apiece, if 
bought in thousand lots. Dip them in 
white paint and they will last with ordin¬ 
ary care about 10 years. The advantage 
of white paint over other colors is that 
you can see the plant very much plainer 
as the green foliage and white make a 
contrast easily seen for quite a distance. 
For bugs as a preventive they are all 
one could expect, as they keep all bugs 
out if ordered with small mesh wire. 
Those I have are made of common screen 
wire, and dipped in paint to help close 
the pores as well as to prevent rust. 
They should be placed on the hills 
just as soon as the seeds are planted, 
and left there till the plant gets so large 
they cannot be left any longer. Then 
they can be placed one on top of another 
and gathered up, placed under cover for 
future use. In ordering be sure to get 
them large enough so they will accommo- 
Melon Under Screen. 
date the plants without crowding, they 
run in all sizes, but I prefer the six and 
eight-inch sizes. 
In the Spring of 1912 I had half an 
acre of cucumbers covered with them, 
during a very severe cold wind and hail; 
I would have lost all without them. After 
the storm was over they were unhurt 
and grew finely, netting $50 for being 
the first on the market. Arthur miles. 
A Talk About Pruning. 
How will trimming apple trees now 
affect the coming apple crop? I have 
been told by a neighbor that the best time 
to trim is while the trees are in blossom. 
He claims that if trimmed while in blos¬ 
som it will not affect the coming crop 
on an orchard which has not been regular¬ 
ly taken care of. A. B. s. 
Binghamton, N. Y. 
The effect* of pruning depends on the 
severity of the pruning, the time of the 
year, the vigor of the tree and the culti¬ 
vation and fertilization. I judge that 
the trees are old ones that need consider¬ 
able pruning. If the trees need it, open 
up the top or center and remove the 
intersecting branches and dead wood. Do 
not remove any more than is necessary 
to admit the sunlight, as the more bear¬ 
ing surface there is, the less will be the 
wood growth. It is best to extend a sev¬ 
ere pruning over two or more years, so 
as not to disturb the bearing habit any 
more than can be helped. If the trees 
bear in alternate years and the coming 
season is the crop year, the tree will 
stand more pruning, if it is the off year 
very little pruning should be done aside 
from opening the heads. The crop is 
easily influenced diu-ing the flowering per¬ 
iod and for two or three weeks after¬ 
wards. Heavy applications of fertilizers 
or severe pruning, during the dormant 
season and until the fruit has made some 
growth, will induce wood growth at the 
expense of the fruit crop and may cause 
the young fruit to drop. It would be best 
to remove all dead wood now, or as soon 
as possible, and defer further pruning 
until about the first of July. The wounds 
will heal more rapidly than if pruned in 
Winter, and there will be a greater tend¬ 
ency to produce fruit buds for the follow¬ 
ing year. If any water sprouts are 
formed after the pruning is done, they 
should be left until the following Sum¬ 
mer, when their removal will help to 
check the too rapid growth of wood. All 
cuts should be made close and painted 
with white lead and linseed oil. 
K. B. GILMAN. 
Lambert Cherry ; Girdling Apple Trees. 
1. What about the failure of the Lam¬ 
bert cherry to ripen satisfactorily in 
Paul Rose’s Michigan orchard? We 
planted 75 Lambert cherries, 100 Schmidt 
and 100 Black Tartarian at Crystal Lake. 
Mich. The Tartarians did not do well 
and I shall have to replace 30 of them. 
Would you suggest filling in with Schmidt 
or Tartarian? 2. Can you give details of 
the girdling process to make trees bear? 
We have about 30 great Baldwins that 
have borne little or nothing of late. They 
are in good shape and I believe have had 
too much growth. They must be 30 
years old or perhaps more. We do not 
want to damage the trees and have been 
told it is rather a delicate process. 
Ben Avon, I'a. F. B. 
1. The Lambert cherry has proved to 
crack so terribly, in all the eastern sec¬ 
tions that I have had reports from, that 
it is practically worthless there. I posi¬ 
tively know from several years’ obser¬ 
vation that it has been worthless in 
Northern Michigan. The Tartarian is a 
good cherry, but the Schmidt is more 
profitable and from a mere money stand¬ 
point I would say to replant with it. The 
Lambert trees I would rebud to Schmidt. 
This may require that they be cut back 
this Spring and the sprouts that will 
grow out can be budded from Schmidt 
trees bearing in the Paul Rose orchard, 
which is not far from the Crystal Lake 
or even the Glen Lake orchard properties. 
I am familiar with all that country, hav¬ 
ing spent two years there when the coun¬ 
try was about all wild woods, more than 
40 years ago, and I have been returning 
in the Summers almost ever since. 
2. The old Baldwin apple trees would 
probably bear next year if girdled prop¬ 
erly this coming June. There is no dan¬ 
ger of doing them harm if a band of bark 
a few inches wide is taken off entirely 
around the trunks of each tree. Cut 
rings with a sharp knife through to the 
wood and make a vertical slit so as to 
get the bark started to peel. Strip it 
off carefully and do nothing else what¬ 
ever. Nature will soon lay on a new 
bark and the tree will probably form fruit 
buds and bear good crops from next year 
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