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THE RURAL SCIENCE SERIES 



USH-FRUITS : A Horticultural Mono- 

 graph of Raspberries, Blackberries, Dew- 

 berries, Currants, Gooseberries, and other 

 Shrub-like Fruits. By FRED w. CARD, Pro- 

 fessor of Horticulture in the Rhode Island College of 

 Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, and Horticulturist to 

 the Experiment Station. 



549 PACES 113 ILLUSTRATIONS $1 .50 



The great importance in this country of the fruits 

 mentioned in the title justifies their treatment in a sep- 

 arate monograph. Professor Card, with a lifelong 

 training as a grower of these fruits, as well as years 

 of study as experimenter and teacher, takes up the 

 subject with special fitness. Not only are the fruits 

 treated with respect to culture, varieties, history, etc., 

 but the diseases and the insects which attack them 

 are fully discussed. There are numerous illustrations, 

 and the volume is an important contribution to the 

 literature of fruit-growing. 



BUSH-FRUITS includes in Part I An Introductory Discussion 

 (Location, Fertilizers, Planting and Management, Pruning, Winter- 

 killing, Propagation, Thinning, Effect of Spraying on PoJination, 

 Forcing, Picking, Packages and Marketing). 



Part II treats of the Brambles; Red Raspberries (Soil, Location, 

 Fertilizing, Propagation, etc., Autumn Fruiting, Marketing, Duration, 

 Hardiness, Yields, Normal Profits); Black Raspberries (Soil, etc., 

 Harvesting, Drying. Marketing, the Evaporated Raspberry Industry, 

 Usual Profits); Blackberries (Soil, etc., Marketing, etc.); Dewberries 

 (Soil, etc., Marketing, etc.); Miscellaneous Brambles (Mayberry, 

 Strawberry-Raspberry, Wineberry, Chinese Raspberry, Ornamental 

 Species); Varieties of Raspberries; Varieties of Blackberries and 

 Dewberries; Yields ; Insects; Diseases; Botany. 



Part III discusses the Groselles ; Currants ( Soil, Fertilizers, Propa- 

 gation, Planting, Tillage, Pruning, Gathering and Marketing, Uses, 

 Duration, Hardiness, Yield, Profits); Gooseberries (Soil, etc., Hardi- 

 ness, Profits) ; Varieties of Currants; Varieties of Gooseberries; 

 Injurious Insects; Diseases; Botany, 



Part IV treats Miscellaneous Types, including other Species of 

 Bush-Fruits (Buffalo Berry, The Goumi, Huckleberries, Juneber- 

 ries, Tree Cranberry, Barberry, Sand Cherry) ; Appendix. 



