1887. 



POPULAR GARDENING. 



57 



intx> paper bags, or even baskets of their own 

 Hnding anil at their omi expense, they were 

 savtil the trouble of returning empty baskets. 



Now, our object in writing this article is to 

 show that there is a way that berries may be 

 shipped safely in the Cincinnati or any other 

 style of drawers and stands. We refer to the 

 milking of bottondess pigeon-hole divisions as 

 shown by the light lines in the aecompaning 

 diagram, and to snugly tit the di'awers at the 

 sides and to be of the same height. Each part 

 should be made to hold a quart, or if to be used 

 with Red Raspberries, a pint. 



In using such a rack, it should be in its place 

 when the beri'ies are emptied into the drawer, 

 placing as nearly as possible the same quantity 

 in each pai't. When the seller receives these 

 berries he has only to lift out the division, when 



Such an assortment can be grown in any 

 good garden of one-fourth to one-half an acre. 



The writer is not theorizing, but practises 

 what he preaches. Not a day or scarcely a meal 

 from the beginning to the end of the year, but 

 he has some of these fruits on his table, and 

 many times two and even three kinds— yes we 

 have had Strawberries, Raspberries and Black- 

 berries grown on our own ground all on the 

 table at one time and we have had to smile 

 when asking the question, ' ' Which do you pre- 

 fer;" to see them stop and think before deciding 

 which was their choice. The ti nth is, earth is 

 nearer a paradise than many families are will- 

 ing to believe, or at least than they make it. 



Pigeon-hole dirisions for Crate Drawers. 

 he will find the fruit laying loosely and easy to 

 be ladeled out. 



We believe if growers would combine on some 

 such a plan, the dealere could be forced into 

 selling the fruit from these drawers, thus saving 

 a great loss on baskets. 



RUSSIAN APPLES AND THE AGENTS. 



Tree agents are in every section of the coun- 

 try with their pictures and big stories about 

 the Russian Apples. Now the facts are nur- 

 serymen have grown and sold varieties of the 

 Russian Apple, such as the Red Astrachau, 

 Alexander, and so on, for years, and while 

 many new sorts are being tested, many of 

 which will no doubt prove valuable, and es- 

 pecially tor extreme cold sections, yet just 

 now scai'cely an agent has them for sale. 



One story they tell is that the Apple trees they 

 are selling are grafted on the "hai'dy, wild 

 French stock," and that any sort thus gi-afted 

 will prove hardy. This is not the case. The 

 Rhode Island Greening can never be made a 

 success in Nortbern Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, 

 etc., budded or grafted on such stock, and in 

 fact it makes but Uttle difference as to hardi- 

 ness of sorts grafted into it ; not one nursery- 

 man in fifty uses such stock generally, and not 

 one agent in fifty sells trees grafted into such 

 stock. 



We say keep a good distance from those tree 

 agents that are always telling big stories, and 

 ii in a half hour's conversation with them you 

 can't get them to cross themselves we are 

 greatly mistaken. 



A VARIETY AND SUCCESSION OF FRUITS. 



It is just as easy to have fruits the year 

 around in some shape as Ir'otatoes or bread. 



By planting the earliest Strawberries like 

 May King, I'helps (" ' Uld Iron Clad '") and Cres- 

 cent, and the latest, like Vmeland, Manchester 

 or Cornelia; and of Red Raspberries, Hansel 

 and Crimson Beauty for early, and Cuthbert 

 and Uerstine tor late ; and of Black Raspberries, 

 Davison's Thornless for extreme early, Tyler 

 for early, and liregg or Seneca for late, mixed 

 in with Currants and Cherries. And of Black- 

 berries, Brintou's Early, Early Hai'vest, Dor- 

 chester, Kittatinuy, Snyder, W estern Triumph 

 and Taylor, ripening in succession as named. 

 Of Grapes, Worden s Seedling, Moore's Early, 

 Concord, Rogers 4 and 15, Catawba, ripening 

 in succession; and interspersed among these 

 I'lums and Reaches, and Summer, Autumn and 

 Winter Pears and Apples. 



STRAWBERRY RUST. 



Several pages are occupied in the last volume 

 of the transactions of the Wisconsin Hortiiul- 

 tural Society, with discussions on Strawberry 

 rust, which has become a formidable evil in 

 that State, as well as elsewhere. President 

 Smith ascribed it to wet weather; his sous 

 think it the result of too heavj- manuring and 

 with this idea, several other members agreed. 

 A Mr. Adams had lound the rust to occur 

 frequently- on poor ground; Proles.sor Tielcase 

 said it occurred on both rich ond poor land; 

 one membei' thought it was caused b^' toi-nuuch 

 sun, and n here planted in alternating rows with 

 Corn to shade it, it was a success, but faileil 

 under full sunshine ; another found rust to be 

 caused by a want of manure, and by great and 

 sudden changes of temperatme ; others ascribed 

 its prevalence to muggy weather. Here was 

 certainl)' enough diversity of opinion to take 

 in all the reported cases ; and under all the dif- 

 ficulties the best remedy, other things being 

 equal, would be to select those vaiieties which 

 experience has sho\ra to be least affected, as dis- 

 eases coming from parasitic fungi are usually 

 the most ilitticult to cm'e. 



Tne foregoing is from an exchange and to 

 which we would adtl that what is called rust 

 and blight will be fomid in many instances to 

 be the work ol a minute worm. As a rule no 

 better remedy can be found than burning over 

 the plantations by putting a bght coat of straw 

 just after fruiting sea.son. 



trial. It has proved hardy, a strong grower, 

 and ranks with the standard sorts in product- 

 iveness. Sea.son about the same as Tyler, a 

 little smaller than Gregg and very productive 

 and hardy. The liest to our ta.ste for table use 

 of any black cap grown. The berry is per- 

 fectly black, and claimed to be very sujierior in 

 quality and sweetness; on this jioint we give the 

 ti'Stimony of T. T. Lyon, President of Michigan 

 Horticultural Society. Mr. Lyon says "The 

 samijle of evaporated fruit has just been tested 

 against some of other varieties similarly pre- 

 pared. I regard the fruit as far superior to any- 



MORE SPACE FOR FRUIT TREES. 



We have become satisfied that the old way of 

 setting and growing orchards is proving a fail- | 

 ure, and that trees to yield an abundance of 

 fruit must have room. • 



Sixteen years ago we set an Apple orchard 

 of six hmnLred trees. For thi'ee summers be- 

 fore they fruited, we had drj- seasons, and the 

 orchard fruitless therefrom. The past winter 

 we cutdown three out of fom' of the trees, leav- 

 ing the trees four rods apait instead of but 

 two rods as originally planted out. 



The past season the trees have reciprocated 

 and made a splendid growth. We have small 

 traits planted among them, which have been 

 kept well tertUized, and as they come into 

 beai'ing, we shall fertilize them to make up 

 for all they take from the soil. We believe 

 not only trees requii-e sunshine, but the soil 

 also, and then if properly worked there will be 

 plenty of growth and fi'uit in proportion. 



One needs but to see the Apple tree that 

 stands alone, to be well satisfied of its sui«ri- 

 ority over the usual orchard tree. 



W e believe a revolution is coming in regard 

 to the way of growing fruit trees to have them 

 bear well. Ol course they may be planted 

 close when young, but as they grow older and 

 larger they must be thinned out, not only the 

 trees but the branches. The tree ihiikI Imn; 

 room to grow and to grow vigorously ; not only 

 the trunk but the heail must have the sunshine. 



JOHNSTON'S SWEET RASPBERRY. 



This new Black Cap variety has been grown 

 four years in Central New York, and is the 

 product of a few plants received by mail for 



Johnston's Su'eet Jiaspberry. 



thing of its class with which I am acquainted ; 

 less seedy, far sweeter, and yet of sprightly 

 flavor and rich." 



MEAT FROM THE SHELL. 



The Journal of Ayriculture says: It is not 

 always the richest soil which produces the health- 

 iest vines and the llnest Grapes. There are places 

 whei'e the laud is not worth $5 an acre, yet the cli- 

 mate may be w orth $100 an acre and Grape-grow- 

 iug very profitable. 



The Orange Co. Farmer sa.vs: This year a Mr. 

 Eitiuge, of New Paltz, picked from his vineyard a 

 cluster of Concord Urapes that weighed uearly a 

 pound and a half. The largest clusters ever shown 

 at the Southern Ulster Fair did not exceed one pound 

 and four ounces. From this it is inferred that there 

 are clusters growing in some vineyards the weight 

 of which, if known, would astonish even a native. 



The Rural Aew-Yorker says: If you plant the 

 Taylor or Snyder Blackberry you will get about 

 everything there is in this fruit except size. The 

 Taylor is a little later than the Snyder, and the 

 berry averages a little larger. If you plant the 

 Kittatinuy ^ou will getabout everything except the 

 extreme hardiness of the Snyder and Taylor. If 

 you plant the Wdsou Junior jou will get more 

 berries perhaps than from any other kind, if the 

 plant wiU euUure your climate, which, if severer 

 than that at the Bural grounds, it will not do more 

 than two years in five. It is, however, hardier than 

 its parent the Wilson. If you want a curiositj' in 

 the Blackberry way that needs protection, tiy the 

 L'l'ystal White . The beiTy is white and sweet like 

 a Mulberry. 



The Rural and Workman says: In fornung the 

 fruit tree, it is best not to let the limbs come out all 

 together, but rather that those which are to form 

 the top, or head of the trunk, but that these Ihnbs 

 should put out three or four inches above or below 

 each other; this will prevent the splitting at the 

 point of junctioD. when heavily loaded with fruit. 

 This is a good time to regulate these matters and it 

 can be done w ithout injury to the growing tree. A 

 well formed head to a J ouug tree is all important, 

 and in order to secure this it must be attended to 

 during the first and second years. 



The Country Gentleman says: We have often 

 had occasion to observe the benefit derived from 

 laying down the most connnouly cultivated Grape- 

 vines on the approach of winter, even of such sorts 

 as are reputed hardy in localities where they are 

 not winter-killed. The work has been easily done 

 by holding them in their prostrate position with 

 short sticks of wood, and without covering, and 

 where they obtained some warmth from the earth 

 and were out of reach of severe winds. A vine- 

 yai'dist once informed us that if he had expended a 

 week's work in laying down his vines it would have 

 saved him from a loss of $l,:iOU in one winter. 



