WRAPPING FRUIT AND VEGETABLES. 



within 4 to 6 inches from the ground, 

 keeping the roots covered so that the 

 sun and wind could not dry Ihem out. 

 I began stirring the ground with a fine 

 tooth cultivator, cultivating them out 

 both ways, and by so doing was able 

 to keep them in such a condition, that 

 it was only necessary to hoe them twice 

 during the season, while the plants 

 made a growth of four feet in height, 

 and although the season was unusually 

 dry, there were only about five plants 

 out of each thousand that died, and 

 these I shall reset this spring. 



In trimming raspberries, as well as 

 blackberries, I always remove the old 

 canes as soon as the crop is harvested, 

 burning them as soon as they are re- 

 moved, thereby leaving no brooding 



places for insects, and have always had 

 the best success in cutting off the tops 

 of the caries that are left to bear, during 

 the month of March or the latter part of 

 February, if the weather permits. I 

 have also found it far more profitable to 

 set a new patch each spring, thereby 

 having a fine new patch coming into 

 bearing each year. I plow up the ground 

 and seed to clover, then turn the clover 

 under as soon as it becomes suitable. 

 By so doing I have always been able to 

 keep the land in good condition, and 

 have had the pleasure of harvesting all 

 first-class fruit, which has generally 

 found ready sale at the highest market 

 prices. — D. W. Piercell, in North Am. 

 Horticulturist. 



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TT7 T the recent meetingof the Michigan 

 //U fruit growers, H. E VanDeman said 

 /Tji — "There js nothing very myste" 

 rious about the success of the California 

 fruitg rowers. In the first place, they 

 take pains to produce high-grade fruit ; 

 then they fix it up in the nicest pack- 

 ages they can devise, and wrap every 

 pear, every peach, every fruit, except 

 cherries, in tissue-paper, some even hav- 

 ing their brand printed on the tissue- 

 paper. And this fruit they send here, 

 and with it capture the fancy market. 



The way to beat California is to beat 

 her at her own game. If it pays them 

 to buy tissue-paper and wrap their fruits 

 it will pay you. Fruit which is wrapped 

 is of better quality. The wrapping re- 

 tains the flavor. Why do the Florida 

 people wrap their oranges ? They wrap 

 oranges with skins as thick as sole leather 

 because it retains the aroma. With a 

 pear the longer that fragrance escapes 

 the poorer it is. The peach, pear or 

 plum that is wrapped is better than' if 

 not wrapped. 



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