THE COUNTRY HOME [chapter 



may be pulled to pieces, making a large mimber of 

 new ones. When planting your currants and 

 gooseberries set them quite deep in the soil. In 

 another chapter I have referred to the insects that 

 attack these plants, and have given the remedy. 



I do not like to leave my small-fruit garden; in- 

 deed, were you here in June, July, or August, you 

 would find me, pretty surely, among my berries. 

 They add largely to the profit as well as pleasure of 

 a country home, but nowhere else will you need 

 to exercise more clean culture and common sense. 

 The strawberry abhors a shiftless man, and gives 

 him only nubbins. The raspberry and the black- 

 berry revert to their wild habits and become 

 thickets on the least provocation. 



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