. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. I9I4 BETTER FRUIT Page 21 COYNE BROTHERS CHICAGO Distributors High Grade Box Apples We have the cream of the finest orchards in the Wenatchee Valley under contract. consisting mainly of Winesaps and Jonathans. "We are short on High Grade SpitzenbergS. if you have not disposed of this variety, get in touch at once, learn our method—absolutely safe for the grower. Write or wire ns or address' G. B. LANHAM, Pacific Coast Representative, Wenatchee, Wash. and is produced with such prodigality as in most cases to insure the pollina- tion of late-maturing stigmas.
. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. I9I4 BETTER FRUIT Page 21 COYNE BROTHERS CHICAGO Distributors High Grade Box Apples We have the cream of the finest orchards in the Wenatchee Valley under contract. consisting mainly of Winesaps and Jonathans. "We are short on High Grade SpitzenbergS. if you have not disposed of this variety, get in touch at once, learn our method—absolutely safe for the grower. Write or wire ns or address' G. B. LANHAM, Pacific Coast Representative, Wenatchee, Wash. and is produced with such prodigality as in most cases to insure the pollina- tion of late-maturing stigmas. The solution of the problem of self-sterility in the main, then, is to so plant that varieties will be cross-fertilized. It is obvious, if cross-pollenization is to play an important part in fruit growing, in planting to secure it varieties must be chosen which come into blossom at the same time as those that they are ex- pected to fertilize. There are several causes of dropping other than lack of fertilization that need the attention of fruit growers. Weather conditions have much to do with the dropping of fruit. Prolonged cold saps the vitality of young fruits and causes many of the more tender ones to perish and let go their hold upon the tree. Rain, whether a dash- ing shower or a prolonged drizzle at a low temperature, or even an extremely moist atmosphere without a fall of rain, weakens the chances of full develop- ment of fruits if such conditions prevail soon after fruit formation. Sometimes a lack of light causes fruit to drop, and thus we may explain the greater num- ber of fruits at the tops of trees, on well-pruned trees, in open-centered trees and in orchards not thickly planted. The "June drop," especially of the peach, may be explained in part as follows: ^^Tle^ fruits reach a cer- tain size the food stored in the tree the previous year is exhausted. Now if the leaves of such trees are not fully expanded and if they are not able to furnish a new suppl
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