FARM GARDEN 



FARM GARDEN 



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For Colorado, eastern Blope of the Rocky moun- 

 tains (W. Paddock): 



Strawberries: Captain Jack, Jucnnda. 

 Raspberries: Red: Marlboro. — Black: Kansas. 

 Blackberries: Wilson, Erie. 

 Currants: Cherry, Pay, White Grape. 

 Gooseberries: Downing, Champion. 



For Colorado, western slope : 



Raspberries : Red : Cuthbert, Marlboro. — ^Black : 

 Gregg. 



Currants: Cherry, Red Cross, White Grape. 

 Gooseberries : Chautauqua, Downing, Oregon. 



For Alabama and neighboring regions (R. S. 

 Macintosh) : 



Strawberries: Excelsior, Lady Thompson, Klon- 

 dike, Aroma, Gandy. 



Raspberries (North Alabama only) : Turner, Cuth- 

 bert, Loudon, King. 



Blackberries: Dallas, Mercereau. 



Currants and Gooseberries : Not grown. 



Dewberries: Australian. 



The grape. 



The grape may be grown on a trellis, a fence, 

 a stone wall or the sides of a building. The best 



Fruiting Cane 



Fie. 387. A good, simple garden method of trainioE the grape. 



training the vine, is shown in Pig. 387. By this 

 system, all the pruning required is to cut away in 

 the fall or winter the old fruiting canes and bring 

 up the new canes to take their places. During the 

 growing seasons, the laterals on the fruiting canes 

 are kept pinched off just beyond the last bunch of 

 fruit, and all laterals along the main vine and the 

 new cane are kept from growing by pinching off as 

 soon as they start. The pruning of vinifera grapes, 

 grown in California, is quite different from this. 



Varieties of grapes. — The most generally adapted 

 varieties of grapes are as follows : 



Purple: Worden, Concord, Campbell. — Red: Dela^ 

 ware, Brighton, Wyoming Red. — White : Winchell, 

 Niagara, Diamond. 



The following varieties are adapted for home 

 use in the colder parts of Ontario and Quebec (W. 

 T. Macoun): 



Purple : Moore Early, Campbell Early, Rogers 

 17, Merrimac, Wilder. — Red : Moyer, Delaware, 

 Brighton, Lindley.^White : Golden Drop, Moore 

 Diamond. 



For Iowa (A. T. Erwin): 



Purple : Worden, Moore Early, Concord. — ^Red : 

 Delaware, Brighton. 



For Colorado, eastern slope (W. Pad- 

 dock) : 



.->'"- Purple : Concord, Moore Early. — Red: 

 Brighton, Delaware. — White: Niagara. 



Colorado, western slope (W. Paddock) : 



Worden, Purple Damascus, Cornichon, 

 Brighton, Niagara, Sweet Water. 



trellis is made of stakes and No. 14 galvanized 

 wire, as the vines cling to the wires and do not 

 need much tying. For the best results, the vine 

 should have a warm southern exposure and a thin, 

 well-underdrained soil. The third, fourth and pos- 

 sibly the fifth year from planting the fruit may be 

 good without pruning, but as the canes grow older 

 they form many lateral branches, thus producing a 

 large number of small bunches of fruit that never 

 ripen or are so small as to be of little value, and 

 which are specially liable to rot. The remedy is 

 pruning. 



The rule for pruning grape-vines, under all con- 

 ditions, is to cut away each year as much of the 

 old wood as possible, saving enough strong new 

 or year-old canes to replace those cut away. Each 

 new cane must have an abundance of space so that 

 the sun and air will surround the leaves and fruit 

 and thus prevent rot and mildew. The number of 

 new canes to be preserved depends on the strength 

 of the vine, the space to be covered and the root 

 space occupied. 



A single vine may be made to cover a very large 

 space if the feeding area in the soil is sufficient. 

 An instance of this is the noted Mission vines in 

 California, which sometimes cover thousands of 

 square feet of surface and produce tons of fruit. 



A very simple, yet very satisfactory method of 



For Alabama (R. S. Macintosh) : 



Moore Early, Concord, Delaware, Niagara. — 

 Scuppemong, Eden, Memory. 



Ilie vegetable-garden. 



It is a painful fact that very many farmers buy 

 their vegetables from the market, where they are 

 received from the metropolitan markets, other far- 

 mers having grown them. In many cases, to be sure, 

 it is cheaper to buy, because it is difficult to secure 

 labor to grow them ; but a different farming plan 

 might enable one to raise vegetables with greater 

 economy. The successful market-gardener endeav- 

 ors to keep his land occupied with growing crops all 

 of the time, and makes his land very rich, that the 

 crops may grow quickly and be tender and succu- 

 lent. Most farmers till too much land. In most 

 cases, if the land were made richer, we might 

 grow our garden crops on half of the area, or 

 less, with more profit and much less labor. A 

 small area, made rich and thoroughly tilled and 

 cared for, would supply a large family. The 

 entire area need not be planted at the beginning 

 of the season. If such crops as radishes, lettuce 

 and peas are put in very early they may be 

 harvested in time for sweet corn, cucumbers, 

 squash, late beets, cabbage, cauliflower, and the 

 like ; after early beans, sweet corn, potatoes and 



