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ferns fill shadeil nooks, fresh and 

 cool-looking in mid suniniet ; honey- 

 suckles and jjurple clematises look 

 in at the windows. There is a 

 tumbling spray of small-flowered 

 clematis Mos^onis; there is a merry 

 fu-illade of the witch hazel at one 

 season and the elfish toss of its 

 yellow curls at another; there are 

 at last the dark silhouettes of ever- 

 greeris against the pure lawn cover- 

 ing of winter. 



Blackberries 



TREATMENT 



The Maine Experiment Station 

 gives the following instructions as 

 to the time for pruning and trans 

 planting raspberries and black - 

 bi-rries, which are equally apjili- 

 cable to California conditions : 



"The ideal treatment for rasp- 

 berries and blackberries i- to pinch 

 them back at intervals during the 

 summer and thus secure strong, 

 sturdy bushes lY-y to 4 feet high, 

 with laterals i to i )4 feet long, 

 rather than to practice severe head- 

 ing back after the plants have be- 

 come long and 'leggy.' If, how- 

 ever, as is frequently the ca.se even 

 in the best managed gardens, the 

 plants are at this season making 

 vigorous growth which may not 

 mature, they should at once be cut 

 back to the desired height, and the 

 canes will harden before cold 

 weather. Many preter to cut back 

 the bushes in the spring, after the 

 extent of winter-killing is deter- 

 mined. Thinning the canes, which 

 should always be practiced, may be 

 done at any time during the season. 

 In general, one-half or more of the 

 young canes which appear should 

 be cut out. 



"Blackberry and raspberry bushes 

 may be transplanted this fall if the 

 work is done immediately, but better 

 results are usually obtained from 

 spring planting. Currants, on the 

 other hand, have given rather better 

 results from fall setting." 



Citrus Fruit 



That people in Central and 

 Northern California have an abid- 

 ing faith in the outcome of the cit 

 rus fruit industry is evidenced by 

 the fact that larger areas than ever 

 before are now being prepared for 

 setting out orange and lemon trees, 

 and especially the navel orange 

 The greatest activity in this line is 

 shown in Tulare countv, and espe- 

 cially around L,indsay, Exeter and 

 Porterville. This whole section is 

 being rapidly transformed into one 

 vast orange orchard. The ship- 

 ments from this .section are increas- 

 ing each year, and in a few years, 

 as the new orchards come into fuller 

 bearing, it will become known as 

 one of the most important orange 

 districts in California. In the mat- 

 ter of extending the orange area (jf 

 the vState, Butte County is a good 

 section and some very large plant- 

 ings are reported from there. U is 

 the opinion of many of our best in- 

 formed fruit men that the day is 

 not far distant when the counties 

 north of Tehechapi will be the 

 mo>t important citrus section ot 

 California. 



Canada's shipments of apples this 

 year are over three times what they 

 were last year, and about double 

 what they were in 1900. 



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