TRIZE FLOWERS AND FRUIT 245 



roots can be artificially replaced, trees and vegetables 

 seem to get along better together than under ordinary 

 conditions. The illustration shows the thrifty growth 

 of peach trees in an Arkansas garden. 



Small fruits, especially strawberries and currants, 

 were frequently a part of the prize gardens, and the 

 description has been given with the rest of the account. 



A Minnesota Grozccr. — Five years ago, writes 

 John Tye of Minnesota, I trfed an experiment of laying 

 down my blackberry and raspberry canes by bending 

 them over and covering them with straw or coarse 

 litter, but when spring came the mice had killed all 

 the canes, by eating the bark off around the bottom. 

 In August I cut out all the old canes, thin out the 

 small, weak canes, and cut off the tops from those left, 

 about four feet from the ground. After that they grow 

 thick and stocky, mature the wood, and I think stand 

 the cold winter much better than when they are left to 

 thicken and are not cut back. My blackberries make a 

 hedge two and one-half feet thick by four feet high, 

 and any cane that grows outside of that limit is cut off. 

 Thus it is easy for the girls to pick the berries without 

 much trouble, the canes grow so stocky they never need 

 any tying up, and the bearing canes are strong enough 

 in the spring to hold up the new canes as they grow up 

 through them. 



The currant branch in the hand of the little girl 

 is a branch that was cut back to about five buds of 

 the new wood. That is all new growth grow^n during 

 the spring which is above the fruit. 



