THE GARDEN AND ORCHARD 125 



when we say "orchard" we mean a collection of 

 fruit-bearing trees. 



Experience long ago showed me it is not nec- 

 essary to lay out large sums for matured berry 

 plants. The cane fruits can be multiplied rapidly 

 like climbing roses, by turning down and re-root- 

 ing the canes. The new canes can then be cut loose 

 from the parent stock and transplanted. Currants, 

 gooseberries and grapes are propagated by taking 

 cuttings six or eight inches long, from new wood, 

 in the fall. These are heeled-in half their length 

 and covered with litter. By spring roots have 

 sprouted from the buds held underground. Straw- 

 berries multiply by throwing out runners, which 

 can be detached from the parent plant and set out 

 on their own. 



Like most old farms mine contained its quota 

 of run-down fruit trees. In some such cases the 

 fruit of the older varieties is so inferior that re- 

 habilitation does not pay. I can count four apple 

 trees, three pear, and one pie-cherry that have re- 

 sponded well to treatment (one of the pear trees 

 yielded nearly a thousand pounds of fruit year 

 before last). But mainly we look to the new orchard 

 which should have been set out ten years earlier 

 for our fruit supply. 



If the battle with insects and fungi in the gar- 

 den is fierce, in the orchard it beggars description. 

 Unless you spray, spray, spray all the time there 



