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By Kenner P. Love
Extension Agent, ANR
Crop and Soil Science
Following are spring gardening tips from the Rappahannock Extension Office.
• Pruning aging apple trees is largely a job of renovation followed by renewal of fruiting wood. The pruning must be moderate and spread out over two or three years to avoid stimulating excessive growth and/or causing injury to large limbs from sudden over exposure to sunlight. Such pruning consists of gradually lowering tree height to 18 feet or less, removing surplus scaffold limbs, and eliminating weak, damaged, and dead wood.
• Producing insect-and disease-free fruit trees requires a thorough spray program, proper pruning, and good cultural practices. Give thought to this before planting a backyard orchard.
• Ever wonder why apricots don’t set much fruit in Virginia? It is because the warm days in February or March encourage the apricot to break dormancy and bloom—only to be followed by freezing weather that kills the developing fruit.
Obituary
M. McWilliams
Boston resident
Maureen Demot McWilliams, PhD, 59, of Otjiwarongo Farm, Boston died Saturday, Feb. 17 at Culpeper Regional Hospital.
She was bom Aug. 11, 1941 in South Africa to the late Norman Hosken and Cecile Geriag Hosken.
Prior to coming to the United States, Mrs. McWilliams had her own radio talk show at the South African Broadcasting Corporation and in 1989 was a candidate for Parliament under the Nationalist Party.
She was a member of the Jungian Society of Psychologists. She was also head of the Human Potential Institute.
Mrs. McWilliams’ 7000 book library was the food for her soul. She studied all religions and
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