ALPHA NURSERY 
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Planting 
HEDGES—When you plant your hedge, keep 
your ditch line straight on one side and plant 
against the straight side, you can do the work 
in half the time. After planting Privet cut it 
back within 3 to 6 inches of the ground and 
start trimming the first year the more you trim 
the thicker the hedge. 
Why some Fruit Trees don’t bear—lack of 
pollen. Plant assorted varieties. 
Your lawn needs lime—Just 150 to 250 pounds 
to average yard. 
Plant crooked and many branched trees in your 
children’s playground, they won’t climb your 
large shade trees then. 
When you see B & B in a nurseryman’s list it 
means Evergreens' are taken up with a ball of 
dirt on the roots and wrapped with burlap. Plant 
them with the burlap, and give them lots of 
water, and put the water so the roots get it. 
Don’t water the tops at any time. Make a de¬ 
pression around the trees so when you water it 
does some good. Don’t mound up the soil around 
evergreen trees' or shrubs. 
Newly planted trees and shrubs should be 
mulched with a little manure (cattle manure 
best). DON’T PUT MANURE IN THE 
HOLES. Fertilizer of all kinds should be put 
on top the ground. 
Water your Evergreens often during dry 
weather and put on 4 to 8 buckets of water to 
each tree depending on the size. When you 
water “water”, don’t half do it, put on enough to 
get down 2 to 4 feet. 
NEVER wet the foliage of Evergreens. 
In hot dry weather RED SPIDERS work on 
evergreens. Just take about two or three hands- 
ful of common SULPHUR and throw into the 
trees during the hot dry seasons. ONCE during 
each hot spell is plenty. (Don’t put Sulphur on 
Japanese YEWS.) It’s' O. K. for all the other 
evergreens. When you see the cobwebs on your 
evergreens get out the sulphur. Put on dry, no 
water. 
CANINES and CONIFERS a bad combination. 
Put a low fence around the Evergreens or tie up 
the PUP for results. 
ROSES want a rich soil—cattle manure, bone 
meal, wood ashes—will make roses, poor soil 
pale roses. 
SPRAY! SPRAY! SPRAY! If you want good 
roses. Start when the leaves start—Use Bor¬ 
deaux Mixture one pound and one ounce Black 
Leaf 40 to 6 gallons water. (See page 22.) 
Cut the Everblooming Roses back 4 to 6 inches 
above the ground when planting. 
CLIMBING ROSES bloom on the growth that 
is one year old so watch your trimming. Always 
leave last year’s growth. 
ROSES SHOULD BE PLANTED 4 TO 6 
INCHES DEEPER THAN THEY GREW IN 
THE NURSERY. 
Making an Everblooming Rose Bed—First pick 
ILLINOIS \ 
Pointers 
out a good sunny spot that will hold 6, 12 or 24 
roses. Then put on about 2 to 3 inches of cattle 
manure, in. bone meal and in. wood ashes. 
Spade in the whole works, then plant the roses. 
PRUNING SHRUBS—Those that bloom before 
July 1, trim after they bloom. Those that bloom 
after July 1, trim early in March. 
Shrubs can be pruned as much as you want to, 
even back within 6 inches of the ground, if you 
want them thick and bushy. 
DON’T CULTIVATE PEAR TREES, PEACH 
TREES OR BITTERSWEET VINES. If there 
is a walnut tree close it will pollenize the Bit¬ 
tersweet so they will have lots' of berries. 
WASH SHADE TREES, especially newly 
planted trees, with Fish Oil Soap Suds. If you 
can’t get whale oil soap, use any soft soap. Wash 
the trees starting in April and then about every 
three weeks during the summer—from the ground 
to the branches. It will keep off the borers 
which kill about 75% of the newly planted shade 
trees. 
SPRAY FRUIT TREES—The first spray is a 
dormant spray for scale. Do this early in March. 
We think OIL EMULSION is the best. Use 3 
gallons to 100 gallons of water, it takes about 6 
gallons of mixed spray for a good sized tree. Oil 
Emulsion will also help to kill Green Aphis and 
Leaf Rollers. The second spray is for the fruit 
and should be put on when the bloosoms are 
falling. Use ARSENATE OF LEAD—3 lbs. dry 
form to 50 gallons water. Third spray—10 days 
after the second spray, using same amount of 
arsenate of lead. The fourth spray along in 
August. Watch the newspapers, they will tell 
you the exact time, and use arsenate of lead. 
CHERRIES, PEACHES and PEARS need only 
the first two sprays. 
STRAWBERRIES should be planted 16 to 18 
inches apart in the rows and the rows' 4 feet 
apart. Set the roots straight down. If you 
spread them out they dry out. 
RASPBERRIES should be set 2 feet in the 
rows and the rows 7 feet apart. Pinch back the 
new growth of the raspberry in June when it is 
about 2 to 3 feet high. After the old wood has 
had a crop cut it out and burn it. SPRAY Rasp¬ 
berries just before the leaves start to show. Use 
LIME SULPHUR, 10 to 15 lbs. to 50 gallons 
water. Don’t spray after the leaves are out as 
it may kill the plants. A light spray after the 
berries are off and the old wood cut out is O. K., 
but only use 3 to 5 lbs. LIME SULPHUR to 
50 gallons water. 
ASPARAGUS needs a rich bed, and plant 8 to 
10 inches deep—and for a garden bed 2 feet each 
way is O. K. 
RHUBARB needs a fairly dry spot. In a wet 
place the roots will rot. DON’T PUT ANY 
MANURE NEXT TO THE ROOTS of any 
tree or plant. Evergreens need very little ferti¬ 
lizer. A little limestone is best. 
Write us about your planting trouble. We will 
tell you if we can. If we don’t know, we will 
find out for you. 
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