. Amateur fruit growing. A practical guide to the growing of fruit for home use and the market. Written with special reference to colder climates. Fruit-culture. 83 THE APPLE. vents this trouble, and various means are employed to that end. Sometimes the trunk is covered vrith hay, straw, corn-stalks, bur- lap or paper, wire netting or laths wired together, or it may be shaded by a board set up on the southwest side. All these are good and answer the purpose, and many of them protect from mice, rabbits, and flat-head borers as well, if properly attended to; but one of the best is the lath scree
. Amateur fruit growing. A practical guide to the growing of fruit for home use and the market. Written with special reference to colder climates. Fruit-culture. 83 THE APPLE. vents this trouble, and various means are employed to that end. Sometimes the trunk is covered vrith hay, straw, corn-stalks, bur- lap or paper, wire netting or laths wired together, or it may be shaded by a board set up on the southwest side. All these are good and answer the purpose, and many of them protect from mice, rabbits, and flat-head borers as well, if properly attended to; but one of the best is the lath screen, which is easily made, is cheap, durable and Fig. 5b.—Snnscalded tree, a, a, a, dead ivood. Fio. 56.—in(7i screen in. place around tree. The lath screen protector is shown in Fig. 56. It is easily and quickly made, but whether it will be cheaper to use than wood veneers will depend on circumstances. Each of these methods of protection secures immunity from sunscaJd, mice, rabbits and the flat-head borer to the part they cover, and also protect the bark from whifBe-trees. Six or seven common laths and three No. 18. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Green, Samuel B. (Samuel Bowdlear), 1859-1910. St. Paul, Minn. , Webb publishing company
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