STONE FRUITS
Spraying Necessary All stone fruit trees, such as peaches, apricots, plums, and nectarines, should bo thoroughly sprayed during July. Use a good bordeaux mixture, prepared at home, at winter strength. Next to this lime sulphur is an effective substitute. This spraying is meant to act as a preventive against fungus diseases. Leaf curl, shothole fungus, and brown rot are a few of them. All the shoots and twigs should be carefully moistened with the spray.
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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 254, 23 July 1937, Page 18
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77STONE FRUITS Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 254, 23 July 1937, Page 18
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