Among The FRUIT TREES . . .
Fruit crops are quite satisfactory this season. Spraying apples is of little use now, except with Bodeaux to control mildew, but peach and nectarine treu- should have a final lime sulphur spray to check fruit rot, at the strength of two tablespoonsful to the gallon of water. Fruit crops can be affected by a shortage of potash in the soil, and this can be corrected by water around the trees with sulphate of potash as recommended above for tomatoes.
Remove most surplus small canes from the raspberry bed. They are in the way and are not needed.
A good deal of the growths on currants can be cut out to let air and light in to ripen up the shoots left.
Loganberry foliage showing holes should be sprayed with arsenate to destroy the green looper grub. ’
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28795, 16 January 1959, Page 3
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