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start to grow again or to con- 

 tinue growth so late they may 



not ripen their wood before 



Winter. 



The prophesied history of 



such an area will be about as 



follows: The vegetables be- 

 tween the Strawberry plants 



will be gone shortly after 



Midsummer, those between 



the tree and Brambleberry 



rows by Fall. Similar crops 



may be grown successfully 



between these rows the second 



season, but probably not later. 



After the Strawberries have 



borne the plants must be de- 

 stroyed. A partial crop of 



Raspberries and Blackberries 



may be secured the first season 



if transplanted plants are set, 



but not until the second if 



tips, suckers and root-cutting 



plants are set. Currants and 



Gooseberries should bear a partial crop the second season. From 



then until the sixth or eighth all these fruits should bear well, but by 



that time the trees will be 

 needing the plant food 

 and the space, so the berry 

 plants must be removed 

 where they are beginning 

 to fail. By the tenth year 

 the trees should have all 

 the space. Some of the 

 .dwarf trees may have to 

 be removed between the 

 eighth and the twelfth 

 years where the standard 

 trees are crowding them. 

 Perhaps by the fifteenth 

 year the Peach trees will 



Fig. 15.-The folly of allowing several branches to have failed ' so the y ma V 

 start close together, especially on Plum trees be cut out. About the 



Fig. 14. Notice the strength of the crotches. 



Not one of these branches will break because 



no two pull against each other 



