Trees, fruits, and flowers of Minnesota . That set me to thinking, whatcan I do to make them all perfect ? Some one told me they neededbees to make them fertilize. So I bought a swarm of bees andkept them in the orchard three years, but that was not a plums were too small and badly stung by curculio. So Ithought I would look over my apple orchard and see if I could notget an idea from them that would give me light on the plum. I MY ILUM ORCHARD. 153 noticed where the apples were set too close together the apples weresmall and faulty, deficient in size, color and quality, but where
Trees, fruits, and flowers of Minnesota . That set me to thinking, whatcan I do to make them all perfect ? Some one told me they neededbees to make them fertilize. So I bought a swarm of bees andkept them in the orchard three years, but that was not a plums were too small and badly stung by curculio. So Ithought I would look over my apple orchard and see if I could notget an idea from them that would give me light on the plum. I MY ILUM ORCHARD. 153 noticed where the apples were set too close together the apples weresmall and faulty, deficient in size, color and quality, but where theyhad plenty of room and sunshine and were cultivated around theywere nearly all perfect. Well, now, I said to myself, I have found the secret; I willgrub out two-thirds of my trees so I can cultivate through them thesame as the apples. So this last spring I grubbed out enough so I could cultivate witha two-horse cultivator. I cultivated twice while they were in bloomand three times after, and I got the finest crop of plums I ever Plum orchard in poultry yard—at ];. K. Hynsons. The trees had as many plums as leaves on and of the very bestquality. There were not two quarts ot poor plums in ten bushels,and I did not spray either. This was on the old plum trees. I have a new orchard that I set six years ago, and a part fiveyears ago. I set those sixteen feet apart in the row and the rowstwenty feet apart. Forty-five are Rockford. Some of these treesbore a bushel of plums to the tree this year, three year old treesset five years ago, and my Peach plums doing equally as well. Igot two dollars a bushel for the choicest ones. I cultivated this 154 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. orchard also twice while in bloom, and as often as the corn fieldafterward. I cultivate when in bloom for two reasons: One is to stir theground so that the air and earth can make a connection, and thatmakes electricity, and when you have got that started you have gotaction in the air, which gi
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