. Beginners' guide to fruit growing : a simple statement of the elementary practices of propagation, planting, culture, fertilization, pruning, spraying, etc. Fruit-culture. 64 BEGINNERS GUIDE TO FRUIT GROWING should be painted over with some composition for their protection. Many different mixtures have been recommended, but in actual practice nothing is bet- ter than plain white lead paint. A small amount of paris green or other coloring matter may be added ^ / ^:-~. FIG. 27—TWO-YEAR-OLD PEACH, BUSH FORM to the white lead merely to give the wounds a more agreeable coloring. A considerable nu


. Beginners' guide to fruit growing : a simple statement of the elementary practices of propagation, planting, culture, fertilization, pruning, spraying, etc. Fruit-culture. 64 BEGINNERS GUIDE TO FRUIT GROWING should be painted over with some composition for their protection. Many different mixtures have been recommended, but in actual practice nothing is bet- ter than plain white lead paint. A small amount of paris green or other coloring matter may be added ^ / ^:-~. FIG. 27—TWO-YEAR-OLD PEACH, BUSH FORM to the white lead merely to give the wounds a more agreeable coloring. A considerable number of glar- ing white spots in a tree do not look well, but aside from the shock to the observer's esthetic sensibili- ties the white color does no 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 Waugh, Frank A. (Frank Albert), 1869-1943. New York : Orange Judd Company


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