April, 1914 
HOUSE AND GARDEN 
339 
Instead of an ordinary room add a con¬ 
servatory to your home. It will be a con- 
stand delight the year around and the 
entire house will be constantly permeated 
with the cheer and life that only sunshine 
and growing things can bring. 
KING 
Channel Bar fireenhouses 
and conservatories are the result of years 
of experience in building for professional 
growers. They possess great strength 
without heavy, shadow casting supports, 
are easily heated and have a wonderful 
ventilating system. That’s why they are 
so productive. They are artistic because 
this type of construction lends itself to 
the curves and graceful sweeping lines 
which are so necessary to the architect. 
No matter what size greenhouse you 
want, or how much you can afford to 
spend upon one, there is a “KING’ ’ that 
will just meet your requirements. We 
build inexpensive portable greenhouses 
and the largest greenhouses in the world 
is a King. 
Write today for Bulletin No. 43 and let us 
put you in touch with some King owners. 
Tell us what you have in mind, and we 
will gladly furnish designs. 
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NEW YORK 
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Spraying and Pruning —In the grow¬ 
ing of fruits, both the small fruits and the 
tree fruits, to give protection from both 
diseases and insects, is perhaps the most 
important part of the work. This is done 
most effectually by the means of sprays, 
and you should make yourself familiar 
with the things which are likely to cause 
trouble and their remedies. As soon as you 
find anything which appears to be wrong 
you should immediately ascertain what is 
wrong and begin the fight against it with¬ 
out a day’s delay. Proper pruning is also 
very important. Cutting back the plants 
at the time of setting has already been 
spoken of. The fruit trees, apple, plum, 
pear and so forth, are now trained to what 
is called the open head or vase form, which 
consists in cutting them back, cutting off 
the main leader quite low to the ground, 
when they are planted out a year later, and 
inducing a lateral or spreading open growth 
of the lateral branches as a result. If 
pruning is done properly from the begin¬ 
ning, very little will have to be done each 
season, except trimming enough to keep 
the young growing trees in shape with a 
pocket knife. For larger trees, all broken 
limbs or those which cross, or where 
growth has become too crowded through 
neglect, should be cut off, always being 
careful to make a clean cut with a sharp 
pruning knife or saw. 
Grafting and Budding 
I T is often of advantage to have more 
than one kind of fruit growing on a 
tree or to substitute for an unsatisfactory 
variety one that is better liked. This can 
be done by grafting if the stock plant is in 
good healthy condition. “Budding” is a 
similar operation, except that in place of 
the scion or twig used in grafting, a single 
“bud,” with a small slice of bark and little 
or no wood attached, is used. Com¬ 
mercially either budding or grafting is 
used mostly to propagate varieties that 
either will not come true from seed or are 
weak growing sorts on their own roots. 
Unless one has had experience it is much 
better to get some one who knows how to 
do the work; but as that is not always pos¬ 
sible, and, furthermore, as there is a great 
deal of fun to be had in doing the thing for 
oneself, here are brief directions: The 
scion or cutting is made from a new, live 
branch, usually not larger than a lead pen¬ 
cil in diameter, having two or three buds 
on it. They should be taken in winter or 
in very early spring while growth is per¬ 
fectly dormant, and may be stored in sand 
in the cellar, or any cold place, or buried 
in the ground until wanted. If allowed to 
shrivel they are useless. The graft should 
be made before the trees start in to active 
growth in the spring. 
The stock should be clean and healthy; 
if changing over a grown tree, such as a 
plum, apple or pear, upon which some 
other variety is wanted, the ‘cleft graft” is 
used. Cut off square the tops of healthy, 
young lims, which are preferably two 
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Use Sunlight Double Glass Sash on this 
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