196 HOME FRUIT GROWER 



Among the thirty-four "most prominent" the following may be 

 considered most worthy: AROMA, BEDER WOOD, BRAND YWINE, 

 BUBACH, CRESCENT, DUNLAP, GLEN MARY, MARSHALL, MICHEL, 

 SHARPLESS, WARFIELD and WILLIAM BELT. Besides these, however, 

 are many at least as good which should be considered and tested to 

 determine which best suit the family demand. Many Strawberry 

 nurserymen sell plants in lots of 25, a number convenient to handle and 

 sufficient to make a test. In making a choice of varieties it is well to 

 choose at least three kinds, one early, one mid-season, and one late, 

 so as to cover a month in the usual Strawberry season. In addition, 

 one or two "ever bearing" kinds should be included so as to have 

 berries until late Fall. Of these there are only a few, of which PRO- 

 GRESSIVE, SUPERB, PEERLESS, AMERICUS, ADVANCE, FORWARD, 

 ONWARD, and FRANCES are perhaps best known, with the first two 

 as the leaders. 



VIBURNUM 



Many people know the so-called "high bush Cranberry" as a 

 handsome, ornamental shrub, when covered with scarlet fruit in Fall 

 or Winter. In rich soil specimens often reach 15 to 20 feet. The 

 berries, borne in large clusters, are too acid and puckery to be eaten 

 raw, but they make an excellent jelly and a sauce considered by some 

 people equal to that made from Cranberries. As the bush is hardy 

 in the United States and Canada it may be grown anywhere. Should 

 it become overloaded with fruit, it may bend to the ground and perhaps 

 not lift itself erect again. Such a catastrophe may be prevented either 

 by growing the plants as trees, each with only a single trunk, or by 

 propping the stems. Each stem may have its own prop or each may be 

 wired to one central prop, and to each other at equal distances apart. 

 Perhaps the last method is the most feasible. 



This Viburnum has special value to fruit growers because of its 

 freedom from orchard insect pests, its ability to make a good hedge or 

 windbreak and its fruit, which if not used for human consumption 

 is highly relished by birds during late Fall and Winter. 



WINEBERRY 



This hairy, rather than spiny, hardy, Raspberry-like plant often 

 grows ten to fifteen feet in a season. Like the Black Raspberry, the 

 canes take root at the tips to form new plants. The brilliant scarlet 

 fruits, which resemble small Red Raspberries, have a very refreshing, 

 sprightly flavor when they can be gathered but robins, catbirds 

 and other feathered friends also know a good thing when they see it. 



