Irish Gardening

Annotation

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. Pruning seems to be unusually backward this season, owing to unfavourable weather principally. This matter must be attended to on all possible opportunities, and especially in case of trees which may require spray ing to destroy lichens, insect or fungoid pests; when such trees are pruned they can be sprayed on the first appearance ofa good, dry day or two. The training and nailing up of fruit trees on walls must also be promptly finished off, and wherever pear scab made its appearance last year the trees should be sprayed to prevent a recurrence again this year. Plums and cherries are more troubled with aphis than any other pests, these may be dealt with later on.