THE COUNTRY HOME [CHAPTER 
may be pulled to pieces, making a large number 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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