. Agriculture; a text for the school and the farm . not shown in the plan ? 2. Compare the proportion of space given each fruit inthe plan with the proportion shown in your diagram. Whatis your conclusion ? Compare the proportion of space giveneach fruit in the different gardens represented at the school,and determine which garden is best balanced. 3. Make a list of all your home fruit by varieties, con-structing a table similar to that on page 183. 4. Is your fruit garden well cultivated and free fromweeds? Are any of the plants sod-bound? Is mulchingused ? 5. Learn to identify surely and qui
. Agriculture; a text for the school and the farm . not shown in the plan ? 2. Compare the proportion of space given each fruit inthe plan with the proportion shown in your diagram. Whatis your conclusion ? Compare the proportion of space giveneach fruit in the different gardens represented at the school,and determine which garden is best balanced. 3. Make a list of all your home fruit by varieties, con-structing a table similar to that on page 183. 4. Is your fruit garden well cultivated and free fromweeds? Are any of the plants sod-bound? Is mulchingused ? 5. Learn to identify surely and quickly each of thedifferent fruit trees, shrubs and vines, either when infoliage or dormant. 6. Go with your teacher or some expert gardener tosome near-by fruit garden and learn how and why the dif-ferent plants should be pruned. Is your home garden wellpruned ? 7. Bring specimen branches or stems of the differentgarden fruits and show where and how the fruit is a drawing in each case. 8. Is your fruit garden regularly sprayed? What kind. Nest of the fall web worm. The caterpillars work inside theweb aud uut upon the outsiclH as do the tent caterpillars. THE FRUIT GARDEN 193 of spray machine is used? What mixtures? What ene-mies are most troublesome in the case of each fruit? 9. Make a collection of all the different insects andfungi you can find that damage fruit in your region. Learnto identify each. What spray is fatal to each? 10. Estimate the value of the fruit produced in your
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