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PROF. S. B. GREEN, ST. ANTHONY PARK. R: 
At this season of the year it seems to me that about the most im- 
portant general thought in connection with horticultural work is to ee 
keep all the plants growing rapidly. To accomplish this to the best 
advantage it is necessary to keep the soil well stirred and keep the 
foliage free from disease and insects. This is true of all plants, but 
in our fruit garden it is especially true of gooseberries, currants 
and, in fact, all our small fruits. Too often after we have gathered 
a good crop of gooseberries or currants, we are perfectly willing to 
let the bushes take care of themselves and struggle as best they can. 
with the weeds and insects; but in order to get a good crop of fruit 
next year we should consider that it is absolutely necessary to have = 
a\crop of good, well ripened wood this year. 
The growth of most of our hardy plants has now pretty generally 
ceased, the terminal bud is formed on the new branches, and the 
ripening process is going on. This ripening process largely con- 
sists of storing up of food in the buds, wood and roots of the plants, 
The first of this month is a good time to cut the brush, since when 
cut at this season it is least liable to sprout, for the reason that the 
roots have very little food stored up which they can use in starting 
new growth. 
The renewing of strawberry beds will soon call for attention, and 
the recent rains have put the ground into such condition that this 
work should be very successful. Where the beds are weak, it prob- 
ably will not pay to renew them, but where they are strong and 
have borne a good crop of fruit I think it very foolish to plow them 
under, since the work of renewing the beds is very little, and it is 
just as well to take two or three crops of strawberries off of a bed as 
one. We have tried a number of different implements in renewing 
our beds. We have sometimes used the disc harrow after taking off 
the two inner discs so that there will be a space of about sixteen or 
eighteen inches between the inner discs, but I think that the com- 
mon two-horse corn cultivator about as satisfactory as any imple- 
ment we have used for this purpose. By driving over the rowsa 
few times it is a very simple matter to loosen up the soil and to cut 
the rows of plants down to a width of about sixteen inches. But, 
first of all, we mow the beds off clean, and if the weather is right so 
