366 Landscape Gardening 



regular and shapely trees are well suited for growth upon 

 the lawn or by the roadside. The amount of fertilizers 

 needed is what is just sufficient to make a fairly vigorous 

 growth, too rapid growth often resulting in the cracking 

 of the trunk on the south side and an early decay of the tree. 

 Among the best varieties may be mentioned Napoleon, 

 Gov. Wood, Black Tartarian, and Windsor of the sweet 

 cherries, and Early Richmond and Large Montmorency of 

 the sour kinds. The fruit should be gathered in dry weather 

 and be picked with the stems attached, so that it shall not 

 be crushed or bruised; otherwise it will decay quickly after 

 gathering. 



THE GRAPE 



This is especially a home fruit, from the fact that it 

 can be grown on a lot of the smallest size, as it can be trained 

 over the veranda or porch, upon a trellis along the side of 

 the house or stable, walls or rocks with a southern exposure, 

 and produce a large quantity of the most delicious and 

 healthful fruit. It succeeds best in a very warm location 

 and in rather poor soil, but if planted where it is close and 

 moist, with but little air and sunlight, it is sure to be attacked 

 by mildews, rots, and anthracnose. The conditions of 

 success in growing the grape are a moderately vigorous 

 growth of vine well spread out to the full sunlight and air; 

 forcing the growth into a few canes those bearing the fruit 

 the present season and those that are to bear the fruit the 

 next season all other parts of the vine being prevented from 

 growing by pinching as soon as they have made one new leaf 

 after the last pinching; and thinning the fruit so that the 

 vines shall not be exhausted by overbearing. The fruit 

 is borne on the wood of the present season's growth, and the 

 more vigorous this growth the larger will be the size of the 

 bunches and the quantity of fruit. 



