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Here is a gooseberry bush, and the currant would be under the 

 same conditions. In three or four years they grow to wood, and 

 the berries grow smaller and smaller. 



The next picture will show that bush pruned as it should be, 

 taking out the old wood, and leaving only three or four stems of 

 three-year-old wood. That stem of three-year-old wood is left 

 to show the difference between the wood which is only one year 

 old and wood which is two or three years old. 



The gooseberry is, I think, one of our most neglected fruits. 

 We have practically given it up in our gardens and use it only 

 as a cooking fruit, but when you plant the better varieties, or our 

 larger hybrid varieties, there is no fruit to my mind better to eat 

 than the gooseberry when it is ripe. And I might say that the 

 quality in them is largely a matter of ripeness. The same is 

 true of practically all our small fruits. 



The currant is treated like the gooseberry; it should be trimmed 

 and pruned out thoroughly in order to get the best fruit. We are 

 apt to see the currants growing on a heavily wooded plant, and it 

 is almost impossible for them to be of any size under those con- 

 ditions. This bush has been thoroughly pruned, and we get such 

 fruit as you see there. They almost bend over with the weight 

 of the fruit. 



The raspberry is one of our important small fruits. It lends 

 itself to pruning very nicely, and I think the two or three pictures 

 which are coming will show the best method of pruning. The 

 plant shown in this picture shows large wood, but when it is properly 

 pruned the fruit would be so much larger that it would pay to do it. 



This picture shows it pruned, cut back about as it should be. 



The next picture shows it tied up to a stake. 



The grape is one of our very best garden fruits. This happens 

 to be a vine of Salem showing the abundance of fruit we can get 

 in a small space. It should be planted against a fence or in an 

 arbor. It should be grown up in a single stem, and grown up on a 

 house or a trellis. It should be grown very much more in every 

 garden, and it should be grown, I think, commercially, because 

 when we can grow a high class of fruit it will bring a good price. 



The plum is one of the prettiest trees in blossom that we have. 



Here is an apple tree in comparison with a child of about the 



