,., CALIFORNIA FRUITS: HOW TO GROW THEM 



came to cutting out the old wood and placing new vines on the trellis, 

 I found it a long, bad job. 



When the new growth started next year, I cut it off as close to the 

 fruiting wood as possible, but I cut it too early and the vines started to 

 grow, and, by the time the fruit was ripe, it was well covered with the 

 rank 'growth and it was nearly as hard work to cut out the old vines as 

 the year before, and besides there were few long canes to put on the 

 trellis. The next year I waited till the fruit was nearly ready to gather, 

 then cut the new vines off as before and irrigated freely 4 , and, when the 

 berries ripened, they were easily and quickly gathered. About the 10th of 

 July the year after the crop was all picked, I cut off all the vines, new 

 and old, then burned the vines between the rows, and for once I had a 

 clean field. Plowing a furrow on each side of all the rows, I irrigated 

 freely and in two weeks had a nice new growth of vines started, and, at 

 the end of the growing season, the vines were eight to ten feet long and as 

 straight as a string and were easily put on the trellis, as they were not 

 tangled as before. 



I wondered if canes grown so late in the season would bear a crop, 

 but the next season the fruit hung like black ropes along the wire and 

 down the canes to the ground. Now I follow this method each year, and 

 have never failed to get a good crop. When the new growth is left to 

 grow all the season it sends out a lot of laterals, which become very 

 much tangled, and, in cutting them out to place on the wire, they are 

 injured so they often die the next season. By cutting everything clear, 

 the ground can be plowed and the next growth is straight with the 

 laterals. 



The dewberry which has recently been most largely planted in 

 Central and Southern California is known as the Gardena because 

 of the prolificness and profitability of a patch grown by W. M. 

 Gray, of Gardena, Los Angeles County. Its qualities are vigorous 

 growth, hardiness, regular and profuse yield of large, early berries. 

 The Lucretia is still popular. 



Pruning and Training Trailing Berries. With reference to the 

 handling of trailing blackberries and the blackberry-raspberry 

 hybrids which are continually becoming more popular, it may be 

 said that there is no one best way. There are several good ways, 

 according to the desires and convenience of the growers, and this 

 is the reason why there is an apparent conflict in which all con- 

 testants may be right, each from his own point of view. The 

 varieties are sufficiently alike to be discussed together. What seem 

 to us the essentials in pruning them are these : 



First, they all (except the Himalaya, as will be noted later) bear 

 on canes which grow the previous year, and the fruit comes on 

 laterals which break from them. In this mild climate there is con- 

 tinuous break of laterals which may cover quite a long period and 

 the same wood may seem to be bearing twice. This second bearing 

 is of so little account that the general rule to remove old wood after 

 its main fruiting is a good one. 



Second, the wood which grows this year will therefore bear next 

 year, and will send out bearing laterals sufficiently with a number 



treatments. The new cane may be pinched at any time during 

 growth and it will then send wood laterals (not fruit laterals) at 

 once and each of these laterals will have the same character that 

 the mam shoot would have had if it had not been pinched ; that is, 



