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APPENDIX. 



Bordeaux made with twice as much water. The young growth 

 should be sprayed when 13 inches high. 



Varieties. — Loudou. — A very yigorous, health.v, hardy kind 

 that produces a large amount of fruit over a long season. Fruit 

 bright red, large, firm, and of good quality. Perhaps as well 

 adapted to general cultivation as any variety known. Some grow- 

 ers complain that the fruit adheres so firmly to the stern that it is 

 diflicult to pick. This feature may perhaps be worse in some sec- 

 tions than others. 



King. — A desirable, productive, vigorous, early red raspberry. 



Older. — A vigorous, productive blackcap raspberry of best 

 quality. The objection to it is that it is rather soft for marketing. 

 Columbian. — A very strong growing, productive, purple berry 

 of the tip-rooting class. The canes make an enormous growth, but 

 bend to the ground quite readily. A peculiarity of this variety is 

 the great productiveness of its side shoots, even when the canes 

 are broken off not more than a foot above the ground. Fruit pur- 

 plish, with more acidity than ordinary kinds. Its color is not pop- 

 ular, so that it does not sell well except where known. It is, how- 

 ever, very desirable for preserving. Perhaps the most productive 

 raspberry grown in this section. ' 



GRAPES. 



The Munson System of Training. — T. V. Munson, of Den- 

 ison, Texas, is one of the best authorities on grapes in this coun- 

 try. As the result of much careful study and observation, he sug- 

 gests the following system of training grapes : 

 ^ He makes a trellis as follows: Two rather 

 smaU posts, each about eight feet long, are set 

 in the same hole, with their tops diverging 

 about three feet, and held together by a cross- 

 wire about twelve inches below their tops. 

 Three wires are used for the trellis, one fast- 

 ened near the top of each post, and one at the 

 middle of each cross-wire, as shown in Figs. 

 105 and 106. The vine is then encouraged to 

 grow a long cane to reach to the lower wire as 

 soon as may be, and it is there secured. From 

 tliis point two or four canes are trained along 

 the middle wire, as sho^^-n in the figures. 

 These canes are left at each annual pruning 

 and tied to the central wire. The shoots from 

 these canes stand upright ;it first, but soon 

 fall down as they grow and drop over the side 

 Training. End View, wires, thus making a trough-shaped mass of 



Fig. \Qf).—Mimson 



