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remove from over the plants

4. Planted a hundred or more apple trees
Some are badly gnawed by rabbits
How barking will they stand and live?
Dr. Kirk thinks they can lose half the
bark and recover. Robert Miller advised
to leave for this year and see how
the appear.

5. Is it too early to plant sweet corn?
Plant some; it may live, Adams early
and Cosmopolitan are said to be hardy

6. What the effect of too much lime?
Fifty bushels not too much. Ten bushels
are enough.

7. Is it well to plant sage seed each year?
Yes and treat as an annual.

8. How trim a willow tree? Take out
dead branches, trim to a good shape
saw off broken limbs below the fracture.
Do not cut off any large limbs

Sarah Hallowell read a letter from Texas
with a pleasant puff of our neighborhood

Hannah Stabler brought seed corn for
distribution. Ellen Farquhar brought pink
amaryllis bulbs. Readers Frances Stabler
Mary Magruder, Janet Miller. Meet at
Cedar Lawn May 2nd at 12 M by request.