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A Vision of the Better Way 
L IBERTY, tire patron saint of women who 
bear the burden of household work, points 
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Your Own Orchard 
(Continued from page 19) 
attention in the matter of pruning; 
peaches, cherries and pears, after the 
“head” is once started, only sufficient 
cutting back and thinning to keep 
them symmetrical and free of crossed 
branches. 
In looking after the older trees, 
especially if there are some which 
have been neglected for a number of 
years, more stringent methods will 
have to be employed. Wherever dis¬ 
ease may have set in, either in the 
form of decay, from formerly neg¬ 
lected cuts or wounds, or “black- 
knot,” which is almost sure to ap¬ 
pear on neglected cherries and plums, 
the saw and the pruning knife will 
have to be used unsparingly. A 
healthy stump is more valuable than 
a diseased tree. Decay holes should 
be cleaned out to sound wood, no 
matter how big a cavity may be the 
result. Then fill with concrete, after 
having given a thorough coat of lead 
or creosote paint. Special tree paint 
can be bought. Old trees are often 
benefited by a thorough scraping, re¬ 
moving the old loose bark that makes 
a harboring place for insects and dis¬ 
ease spores of various kinds. With a 
tree scraper, which is a triangular 
blade attached to a handle, one can 
go over the trunks and larger 
branches of a number of trees in a 
half-afternoon’s work. They cost but 
50c or so. 
One common mistake in the gen¬ 
eral care of fruit trees is to let a tuft 
sod grow close up about them. The 
best results are obtained where the 
entire space between the trees can 
be plowed or spaded up every year 
or two. If this cannot be done, at 
least keep a generous-sized circle 
clear about the base of each. If your 
trees are choked in this way, give 
them what relief you can at once. 
The sod removed may be either re¬ 
placed upside down, or stacked in a 
pile to rot into excellent compost for 
next year’s frames or garden. In 
the latter case, place them in alternate 
layers, the grassy sides together. If 
your trees have been long neglected, 
a winter mulch of manure, applied 
now, to soak and wash down into 
the ground, will give excellent re¬ 
sults. It may be coarse and fresh, 
such as you could not find use for 
elsewhere. Fertilizers or more con¬ 
centrated manures should not be used 
until spring. 
Winter Spraying 
The sooner you can get at winter 
spraying, after the trees have become 
dormant, the better. Spray thor¬ 
oughly. San Jose scale, which is the 
chief enemy aimed at in winter spray¬ 
ing, is capable of multiplying with 
such rapidity that if but a few 
“colonies” escape, by the end of an¬ 
other season there may be as many 
of them as ever. Thorough spraying 
in turn depends 011 conscientious 
work and a good machine. A hand- 
power, compressed air sprayer, with 
attachments for doing the different 
kinds of work, will cost from $7.50 to 
$12. Nothing but an “all brass” ma¬ 
chine should be purchased. Galva¬ 
nized iron is not suited for this 
kind of work, and gives out with a 
few seasons’ use. 
For the few trees in the home orch¬ 
ard it is generally advisable to buy 
ready mixed spray materials, that 
need only to be diluted with water 
to be ready for use. The home mix¬ 
ing of spray materials is a very 
mussy job at best, and in handling 
very small quantities there is more 
waste and danger of inaccurate pro¬ 
portions of the various ingredients 
than when the thing is done on a 
large scale. A number of the com¬ 
mercial sprays now obtainable are 
thoroughly reliable, and very con¬ 
venient to handle. 
For winter spraying, either a lime- 
sulphur or an oil spray is used. The 
various brands differ in strength and 
other particulars, and in using any 
of them, follow directions with the 
utmost care. In comparing prices, do 
not be guided by the cost per gallon, 
but by the quantity of spraying ma¬ 
terial of a standard strength which 
that gallon will make when diluted. 
It is an excellent plan to drop a line 
to your experiment station and get 
the results of their experiments with 
commercial sprays. You will then 
have something definite and authentic 
to go by in making your choice. 
English Engraved and Inscribed Glasses 
(Continued from page 39) 
Done” was the motto of the Cycle 
Club, ancestor of Jacobite activity. 
The more timid Jacobites contented 
themselves with symbols or inscrip¬ 
tions engraved upon the under side 
of the foot of the glass. In the first 
illustration you will see in the 
first glass a specimen of the Fiat 
Jacobite drinking-glass (two oak- 
leaves engraved on the foot). The 
second glass is engraved with the 
heraldic rose upon the bowl and the 
star upon the foot. The large cen¬ 
tral glass—its owner must have been 
the very boldest Jacobite of all!—is 
inscribed Audentior Iho and also 
bears the portrait of the Young Pre¬ 
tender, whose death in 1788 did not, 
strangely enough, put an end to Ja¬ 
cobite activities. Indeed the “Stuart 
fascination” is one of History’s great 
mysteries. On the foot of the fourth 
glass in this first illustration the 
reader will see engraved the feathers 
of the crest of the Prince of Wales, 
the Rose and two buds of the Stuarts 
are on the bowl. The rose of the 
bowl of the fifth glass is not heraldic, 
but the Stuart Rose is engraved upon 
the foot. 
It is truly remarkable that any of 
these Jacobite glasses should have 
survived, for many of them must, 
in the course of their parlous time, 
have had to meet with destruction to 
escape serving as tell-tales when sud¬ 
den and unexpected raids upon Ja¬ 
cobite “strongholds” were made by 
the officers of the Crown. Some of 
these engraved and inscribed Jacob¬ 
ite glasses were probably decorated 
upon the continent, but most of them 
are of English workmanship in en¬ 
graving as well as in manufacture. 
Probably many of the Jacobite 
glasses were made at the glass¬ 
works of Newcastle-on-Tyne, prox¬ 
imity to the border of Scotland mak¬ 
ing such a location convenient on 
occasion. I think but few should be 
attributed to the Bristol glass-work¬ 
ers. Probably the largest number of 
Jacobite glasses were made shortly 
before the “Forty-five.” 
As the Jacobites had specially en¬ 
graved and inscribed glasses, so, too, 
did the partisans of King William. 
These were to be found in Ireland 
as well, where a number of them—- 
some are extant—were engraved with 
anti-Jacobite toasts. But then it was 
not likely that the Irish could forget 
James II. In the third illustration the 
(Continued on page 58) 
