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House & Garden's 



FRESH BERRIES— WITH CREAM 



Wherein the Wares of the Howling Huckster and the Avaricious Fruit Store Man Achieve that 

 Ehisive Perfection Through the Medium of the Ho^ne Garden 



IN the planning of even a modest kitchen 

 garden the desirability of the small fruits 

 — currants, raspberries, blackberries, etc. — is 

 often overlooked. The thoughts of beginners 

 especially are prone to center on vegetables, to 

 the exclusion of the berries, which, while of 

 perhaps less nourishing value, are nevertheless 

 highly important articles of diet. 



The requirements of these cane and l)Ush 

 fruits are not exacting. Any fairly sunny, 

 well drained soil which will produce a good 

 general vegetable crop will be .suitable. Such 

 necessary care as spraying, pruning, mulching. 

 etc., is easily given and amounts to little 



L'gular 



drv 

 The 



but 

 look 



Enough compared with that which the 

 vegetable garden demands. 



As soon in the spring as the ground i 

 enough to crumble is the time to plant, 

 stock should Ije ordered, therefore, early 

 before deciding what to get you should 

 the ground over carefully and decide exactl> 

 how much space will be available. In doing 

 this the following planting distances should be 

 kept in mind: 



Raspljerries ought to be planted 3' or 4' apart 



in the row; blackl)erries and dewberries. 5'; 



currants, 4'; gooseberries, S'. If only a single 



row is to be planted, perhaps along a fence or 



at the edge of the garden, these figures 



will suffice. If, however, you decide 



upon two or more parallel rows, you must 



allow an average distance of 6' between 



the rows, to leave room for you to move 



about comfortably while attending to the 



cultivation, picking, etc. 



All of the good nurseries supply varie- 

 ties of small fruits in great numl>ers. It 

 would be out of the cjuestion to set down 

 iiere anything like a comprehensive list 

 of these, but you will not go far wrong if 

 you make your choices from the following: 

 Raspberries: The King (e.xtra early); 

 ("uthl^ert; Columbian; Reliance; St. Re- 

 gis Everbearing; Cardinal; Palmer 

 (black); Golden Queen (yellow). 



Blackberries: Mercereau (early); 

 Earh- Harvest; Earlv King; Snvder. 



Currants; Perfection; Fay's Prolific; Lee's 

 Prolific (black); White Grape. 



Dewberries: Premo (early); Lucretia. 

 Dewberries ripen somewhat earlier than rasp- 

 berries, but in other respects are quite similar 

 to them. 



Gooseberries: Industry (English variety 

 well suited to our climate) ; Houghton's Seed- 

 ling; Downing; Golden Prolific. 



A literal amount of well rotted manure dug 

 into the soil where the plants are to go will 

 jjrove a paying investment for higher quality 

 fruit. For blackberries and raspberries, too, 

 \ ou must provide stakes or some other .supports. 



Heavy bearing bushes can re- 

 sult only when wisely selected 

 and well cared for plants are 

 used 



Black raspberries should find 

 a place in the small fruit bor- 

 der. Many prefer them to the 

 red form 



Unlike the true cane fruits. 



currants bear only on mature 



and thoroughly ripened hard 



wood 



The best red raspberries, when 



grown at home, lack the 



somewhat pithy character of 



those in market 



Blackberries, as well as raspberries, must have a supporting trellis 



to which the canes can be tied. A good one is made of stout 



wooden posts with connecting strands of heavy wire 



