Insecticides

Jean Cumming wrote me this wonderful e-mail: What is Paris green? Bordeaux mixture? I presume arsenate of lead is an evil poison that cannot and should not be sold or purchased? I found Canadian gardening textbooks at a garage sale, one really, two editions, 1938 and...

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PLANTING TREES

I am asked constantly about the planting of trees.  What are the best to choose? how do you do it properly?  How do you  water them properly? First of all trees comes in two forms:  container-grown;  or balled-and-burlapped.  The former is obvious; the latter means the...

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