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Notes From New England 
Orchard Work. —This has been an 
ideal Winter for renovating fruit trees. 
There has hardly been a week up to the 
time of this writing, in the middle of 
February, when the men could not go 
into the orchards and work with per¬ 
fect ease. It is interesting to note, how¬ 
ever, that nearly all experienced fruit 
growers are doing much less pruning than 
in former years. There seems to be 
little doubt but that the trees of New 
England have been treated too harshly 
in the past. Even with second-story 
trees, which must be beheaded in order 
to get them sufficiently low to be sprayed 
and to make thinning possible, it is bet¬ 
ter to prolong the operation over several 
years instead of cutting too hard the 
first year. Drastic pruning almost al¬ 
ways results in a heavy growth of water 
sprouts, which come to form a problem 
in themselves, and the vitality of the 
trees seems to be affected. 
Care in Pruning. —Some of the local 
tree men who work by the hour have a 
habit of doing much more cutting than 
is necessary. Either they have not 
learned better or else they want to get 
in all the time they can. It is surpris¬ 
ing to find many of these' men making 
a botch of the job when they undertake 
to remove large limbs. All too often they 
make their first cut at the top, with the 
result that the limb splits below from 
its own weight and strips off a long 
slice of bark. A little more time is re¬ 
quired, but limbs of any size may be 
j removed without doing any damage by 
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taking off the larger part of the limb 
before the stub is removed. 
Sprays and Sprayers. —In the course 
of several years experimenting with dif¬ 
ferent kinds of spraying devices I have 
accumulated a collection which makes one 
corner of the barn look like an arsenal. 
Most of them will have to be scrapped 
this Spring. There are three which I 
shall keep. One is the form of bucket 
pump which looks like a straight rod, the 
plunger working back and forth at the 
end. This is altogether the most satis¬ 
factory one-man spray pump for the use 
of liquids with which I have had any 
experience, and offers a very easy method 
of spraying trees and shrubs. Dry 
■sprays are so easy to use that I rely upon 
them almost wholly in the vegetable 
garden. They are not messy like liquid 
sprays, and are ready for use. at any 
time. I keep a spray-gun loaded with ar¬ 
senate of lead and another with sulphur 
and tobacco dust. They do not have 
to be cleaned after being used, and are 
very convenient, particularly if the gar¬ 
den-maker has only a limited amount of 
time in which to fight the bugs. I must 
admit, though, that a liquid nicotine- 
spray is needed for combating plant lice, 
which collect bn the under side of the 
leaves. I keep a little tin hand-pump 
filled with Black Leaf 40 for dealing with 
these pests, but I have also learned that 
much can be done to dislodge them from 
trees and shrubs near the house by using 
a strong stream of water from the hose 
directed against the under part of the 
foliage. 
Old-fashioned Flowers. —It is rather 
interesting to find the so-called old-fash¬ 
ioned flowers coming into great popu¬ 
larity again. The newer larkspurs are 
especially in favor, and with good 
reason, for they are very fine indeed. 
Kinds like Beatrice are hardly to be com¬ 
pared with the larkspurs of our grand¬ 
mothers’ days. Two of the bluest lark¬ 
spurs are Blue Butterfly and Queen of 
the Blues. The latter grows from 18 to 
22 inches high and is one of the best for 
cutting. Blue Butterfly is more dwarf, 
and is to be recommended above all others 
for bedding purposes. 
Two Kinds of Lettuce.— California 
lettuce has again flooded the Boston mar¬ 
ket, and local growers have suffered from 
the Western competition, although a cer¬ 
tain adjustment of seasons appears to be 
going on. Boston demands tight heads 
and seemingly will not tolerate loose 
heads. In the Western part of the State, 
however, early lettuce is in favor. Very 
little head-lettuce is grown in that sec¬ 
tion, and the market is satisfied appar¬ 
ently with curly kinds. The growers of 
Greater Boston would he happy if such 
a situation existed in their part of the 
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