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T HE MONTH of June is the 
ideal time to plant the gor¬ 
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Nymphaeas. 
We offer strong, pot-grown plants 
of a grand assortment of both day 
and night blooming varieties in all 
colors, also Victoria Trickeri. 
Hardy Nymphaeas and Nelum- 
biums cannot be supplied at this 
season. 
All are described in Dreer’s Gar¬ 
den Book which also gives full in¬ 
formation on growing Flowers 
and Vegetables of all kinds. 
A copy free if you mention this publication 
We offer free to our patrons the advice 
of our experts in devising plans for 
ponds and selecting varieties. 
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The Garden Magazine, June, 1923 
SPRAYING CHERRIES FOR 
LEAF SPOT 
L AST summer many Cherry plantings in New 
York State shed their leaves prematurely due 
to a severe outbreak of the cherry leaf spot 
disease. The early shedding of the leaves in 
this way, year after year, greatly weakens the 
trees and may eventually kill them. Last year’s 
fallen leaves will be the chief source of infection 
this spring unless they were plowed under in the 
fall, says the Geneva Station authority, and in 
any event the fruit grower will find it well worth 
while to take the necessary steps to prevent an¬ 
other outbreak of the disease this coming season. 
“Removing the chief source of infection by plowing 
under the leaves is the first step in the successful 
control of the disease,” says the Station specialist, 
“but plans should be made for following this 
up with lime-sulphur spray to be applied (i) 
just as the petals fall in the spring, (2) about ten 
days later, and (3) just before the fruit turns red. 
A fourth application is sometimes made to good 
advantage shortly after the fruit is harvested. 
Sweet and Sour Cherries are equally susceptible 
to the disease, but care must be exercised in 
spraying Sweet Cherries as they are subject to 
burning with lime-sulfur. A mixture containing 
1 gallon of standard strength lime-sulfur to 40 
gallons of water will give best results with 
Sour Cherries, while for Sweet Cherries the pro¬ 
portion should be 1 gallon of lime-sulfur to 50 
gallons of water.” 
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R ATHER surprising results are reported 
from the use of wheat straw with horse 
manure in a series of recent tests at the N. Y. 
(Geneva) Expt. Station. Whenever straw was 
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servative such as peat or acid phosphate, a 
marked loss of the organic matter of the manure 
was noted. Also, when fresh straw was added to 
manure applied to growing crops a decidedly det¬ 
rimental effect was noted as compared with the 
results secured from the use of fresh manure 
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alone. No satisfactory explanation of these re¬ 
sults has yet been found. 
With the addition of peat to a manure-straw 
mixture, the loss amounted to 53 per cent, during 
an interval of four months as compared with a 
loss of 32 per cent, where peat was used in the 
manure alone. In a mixture of manure, straw, 
and acid phosphate the loss amounted to 35 per 
cent, in four months, while with acid phosphate 
and manure alone this loss was only 25 per cent. 
It is pointed out by the Station specialists that 
the beneficial effects of manure in improving the 
mechanical condition of the soil are due largely to 
the organic matter which it contains, so that it 
is highly desirable to avoid any practice which 
hastens the loss of this material. So far as the 
Station experiments have gone, it seems that the 
best results will be secured where acid phosphate 
is mixed with the manure as soon as it is voided, 
and the mixture stored in a covered shed or pit 
until such time as it can be conveniently spread 
on the field. Scattering two handfuls of the acid 
phosphate in each stall each day and allowing the 
animals to trample it into the manure is said to be 
quite satisfactory and much easier than trying to 
mix the materials in any other way. 
