LEAFLETS TO CARDENERS AND FRUITCROWERS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 220, 10 June 1908, Page 3

LEAFLETS TO CARDENERS AND FRUITCROWERS.

GOOD TIME TO TREAT PEACH CURL. „ ®°. me the Government's " Leaflets for Gardeners and' Fruitgrowers" (by- Mr. T. nf °, io ? lst )> which had gone out ,of print, aro. being re-issued. ■ Two are al- ■ ready in-print, namely, No! 24, "Peach Curl/' ami No. 26, "Cicada." * U },^o ee oth ? r |® afie n t s aro in the 'printer's nnrl v ' Verrucosa of 'he lemon and other citrous trees,' and No. 34, "Two Fungus Disoases of the Gooseberry." Peach Curl. ihe leaflet on peach curl is specially opportune, ..for the present is the time for applying the winter .treatment prescribed .by Mr. Kirk. This writer says:—"The disown ives through the winter on the buds and J thus ■scions and buds from a diseased tree will carry the disorder intolocalities where it was previously unknown. ..... All prumngs and leaves ' from diseased trees should, be raked up . and burned, especially in nurseries. Bordeaux mixture, properly made and applied, will check _ the disease. Soon after the leaves have fallen, prune the tree and burn leaves and prumngs ; then spray the tree with Bordeaux mixture, using the 10-10-40 formulathen, again just .as the buds are swelling! spray with the same formula. In the spring just after the petals have dropped, a third r y ; n J^T ,d appHed, this time: using the 4-4-40 formula;;or, if tho foliage appears to be very delicate, uso a still weaker spray, such as the 4-4-50. Excellent results havo attended the substitution of the lime-salt-sulphur spray for the winter dressings and its use is to be preferred if the trees arc affected with scale."