Even the smallest back yard can have a grape-vine 



Any garden is "good" for small fruits, and almost any gardener. 

 Lest some small fruit be left out in planning the garden, all must 

 be named: the grape is the only vine; gooseberries 

 Small Fruits and currants constitute the bush-fruits ; four distinct 

 species of raspberries (two reds, a black, and a 

 purple) and several species each of blackberries and dewberries, 

 together with the loganberry, make up the "brambles;" the straw- 

 berry, the only herbaceous fruit, completes the list. 



We are told that Nature is chary with her choicest 

 products, only parting with them at the cost of much 

 She is accused, too, of spreading 

 indifferent things before the eyes of indifferent 

 mortals, and of reserving her loveliest and best for 

 the few. These charges are not just as regards fruits. Choicely good 

 fruits cost no more than poor or mediocre ones, and the labor of 

 growing good and ordinary is much the same; so that, rich and poor, 

 great and small, may feast on the loveliest and l)est. 



The best varieties and good care are the fundamentals of success 

 in growing small fruits. Methods matter less. Small fruits are easy 

 to manage, and the grower can usually devise methods to suit his 

 needs. The general instructions given in this primer cover all details 

 of culture of vine, bush, and brambles, saving one — that of [iruning. 

 We come, then, to the pruning of these fruits. 



Who Buys the 



Best, Gives Care i"."i"" , , ,, 

 the Best, May t^'l '''"d trouble. 

 Have the Best 



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