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Fruit Trees and Plants 

A New Day Has Dawned 
For the Northern Fruit Grower! 
Searcity of fruit and development of new and improved varieties have 
brought a new era for the fruit grower. 
The home owner—hard pressed by scarcity of fruit and prohibitive 
prices—must turn to home production if he would have bountiful supplies. 
The commercial grower can be assured of strong demand and profitable 
prices for some time to come. 
And to all planters the advent of new and thrilling varieties (mostly 
creations of our great State Fruit Breeding Farm) unfolds a field of fruit 
growing achievement and profits scarcely dreamed of a few years ago. Size, 
quality, productivity, hardiness, marketability—all these joys and more, 
too, await the planters of the fine varieties we list in the following pages. 
It is an accepted fact that fruit acreages are low—supplies of many 
kinds scarce and decreasing (because of labor shortage and national use) 
and that demand is great and prices high. This situation will probably 
exist for some time to come. 
The grower who plants now—spring, 1948—should be in a very favor- 
able position, whether for home use or market, for several years. 
Many of the newer varieties are in short supply and great demand so 
should be ordered early. This is especially true of the Six New Apples on 
the next page, and of the Pears and Arrowhead Strawberry. 
There is also a great shortage of fruit plants (due to nursery labor 
problems), so it is not a cry of “Wolf, Wolf,” when we advise early ordering. 
Buy early—but buy the best—-Buy Daniels Hardy northern grown plants 
of the best varieties for the North. 




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ABOUT INSECTS 
Insects are commonly divided into 2 
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on their feeding methods. The former are 
equipped with biting mouth parts with 
which they chew off and consume parts of 
the plant tissue. Whenever one sees holes 
being eaten in the leaves, or the leaves 
disappearing as the insect works, he can be 
sure that it is the biting type of insect that 
is doing the damage. To control it a 
“stomach” poison, such as Arsenate of 
Lead, is dusted or sprayed onto the leaf 
surface, so that the insect, as he continues 
his feeding, will devour the poison along 
with the plant tissue. 


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Sucking insects, on the other hand, do 
not devour any plant tissue, but by means 
of an elongated mouth part, or proboscis, 
pierce the leaf or stem and suck out the 
juices from the inside in much the same 
manner that the mosquito feeds. Arsenate 
of Lead or similar stomach poisons have 
no effect upon the sucking type. They 
must be controlled by using a spray or 
dusting material which kills by coming in 
contact with its body. Some form of to- 
bacco spray (Nicotine Sulphate) is gener- 
ally used. 
ABOUT DISEASES 
Of the various groups of 
plant diseases only one, the 
£4, Fungus Disease, is effec- 
tively controlled directly 
by spraying. This type of 
disease spreads by means 
of a small single-celled 
part called a spore. The 
spores float through the 
air, light on the host plant 
and under favorable con- 
‘ ditions of temperature and 
moisture “spout,’’ sending out a minute 
“shoot” which grows along the surface of . 
the plant, until it finds an opening through 
which it gains admission. Once inside of 
the plant, sprays do not affect it, but it 
may be held in check by a coating on the 
plant surface of a poison such as Lime 
Sulphur, which can kill the shoot before it 
gets into the plant tissue. 
Other common disease types are Bacterial 
and Systemic. Each have their rather com- 
plicated and specialized controls. Mosaic, 
a systematic disease of Raspberries is es- 
pecially important. Only raspberry plants 
certified to be free from Mosaic by the 
Siete Nursery Inspectors should be plant- 
ed. 
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