. The Canadian horticulturist [monthly], 1893. Gardening; Canadian periodicals. i5- The Canadian Horticulturist, in the same manner with the upper roots, tinning the eartli as 1 proceed, and keeping back a little earth to cover loosely the top. This I keep loose all summer, hoeing it every ten days or so. Some people think that there is no use of hoeing except to keep down weeds. I hoe to keep the ground moist, and prevent it from becoming too dry. The following spring I put a good coat of manure all around the tree over a space of three feet from it, and keep it stirred and worked in with the
. The Canadian horticulturist [monthly], 1893. Gardening; Canadian periodicals. i5- The Canadian Horticulturist, in the same manner with the upper roots, tinning the eartli as 1 proceed, and keeping back a little earth to cover loosely the top. This I keep loose all summer, hoeing it every ten days or so. Some people think that there is no use of hoeing except to keep down weeds. I hoe to keep the ground moist, and prevent it from becoming too dry. The following spring I put a good coat of manure all around the tree over a space of three feet from it, and keep it stirred and worked in with the hoe, so that it will rot, and that the rain will cany it to the roots. If this process is continued three or four year, there is no danger of bein" troubled much with the black knot, and a first class crop of fruit is almost sure. We must feed our trees. The plum is a great bearer and will stand any quantity of manure. I consider it the best paying of all fruit crops. Some people say that they have no room to plant. 1 have an eighth of an acre, a house x 27, woodshed 24 x Hi, well and clothes drier, besides, and I grew $40 worth of plums last year ; I have never failed in a crop. 1 have taken most of the prizes at our fall shows the last fifteen years. Some of my T,ombard trees have been bearing fifteen years and I have never failed in taking first prize with them. The Lombard is very much subject to the black knot. Last winter 1 cut off' some large branches which were affected with the knot and last summer young shoots grew out from accessory budds five or six feet long and from one-half to three-quarters of an inch in thickness. This is my plan of renew- ing my trees. Now, sir, I would like to see a man come into my yard and order me to cut down my trees becruse he found a small batch of black knot here and there. Had such a thing been done a year ago it would have cut $40 out of my pocket besides the prizes I got at out- fall show. I think it would be better for the As
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