GARDENING NOTES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 19 July 1907, Page 4

GARDENING NOTES.

Pruning fruit trees may be pushed ahead now, and the present is a good time for the work. Spraying.—This would be better left till a little later, as at present all the fruit tree bights are practically dormant, and the blight specilics du not do their work so well now as if applied just before the buds begin to burst in the warm weather, and the insect life is on the move, and the spray material is not so likely to be washed off by rain before the work intended for it has been accomplished.

Selection of fruit trees.-Although not much planting has been attempted so far, those intending to plant -Iculd not lose sight of the fact that a certain quantity of trees are going out of the nurseries, and it is not natural for them to send out the worst trees first. People should therefore leave their orders at once so that good trees will lie saved for them, and lie ready when it is most suitable and convenient to plant. Avoid i-mvasscrs who are canvassing for distant firms. Your order will come to hind, and the roots may have been exposed for days before you receive them, and although the trees may appear right they may have received a check from which it will take years to recover. Far totter to order from some reliable firm in your own district who has a reputation at stake, and will not knowingly give you wrongly named trees, and Toucan see what you are getting before you take them away.