THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 
JUNE, 1916 
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A Space-Saving Device for Fruit 
Ui TO a few years ago I had believed that j 
I could not afford space’ in my acre garden 
for blackberries, because of their long, sprawl- — 
ing growth of cane. But when on a trip through 
California I saw whole fields of Logan berries 
and Himalaya blackberries (both of which send _ 
out longer runners than the varieties of black- 
berries generally cultivated in the Hast) trained 
on two-story, or double-deck, trellises and tak- 
ing little more space than the average bush 
fruit commonly grown in Eastern gardens. 
This arrangement struck me as an adaptable 
idea and I tried it next spring with a half 
dozen blackberry roots. It 
have since set out and thus trellised a whole 
row (fifty roots) of blackberries. Incidentally 
I have “improved” on the California field-scale 
practice by utilizing both the space beneath and 
between the trellis for other garden crops, so 
no ground space at all is wasted. 
Hach trellis consists of two parallel rows of 
stakes, these stakes being six feet apart in the 
row with two feet between these two rows of 
stakes or supports. The stakes (if round) 
should be about three inches through, or 2x4 
if of sawn lumber. They are all set to stand 
an even height of five feet above ground. It 
takes five stakes in a row (ten stakes in all) 
to make a trellis 24 feet long—the right di- 
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mensions for trellises of two-roots, or hills— 
one at each end of trellis. Along the top of 
each row of stakes is run and fastened with 
staples, a wire at least one eighth inch in diam- 
eter. Another line of this same wire is attached 
to the posts (on inside preferably) at two or 
two and one half feet above the ground. These 
wires are the “sleepers” for the respective “sto- 
ries” or “decks” of the trellis. At each end 
of the trellis, nail between the posts two sticks, 
one even with the lower strands of wire and 
one at the top. Next, for each deck, saw eight 
pieces of inch thick board having thom just 
twenty-six inches long and about two inches 
wide. In the ends of these saw an inch-deep 
V-shaped notch (such as in a swing-board). 
These boards are placed at equal distances 
apart, crosswise between the rows of wire 
sleepers of each story, and serve as a support 
for the vines which are trained to run over the 
trellis thus formed. 
The mature canes, 1. e., those that are to bear 
this year’s fruit, are trained on the top story, 
and the shoots of this year’s growth (next 
year’s bearing canes) are trained along the 
lower story of the trellis. At the end of the 
bearing season the old canes on the top story 
are cut away at the ground-line, and the new 
ones on the lower story are lifted to the top, 
thus leaving the lower story free for next year’s 
growth. By having the cross-boards removable 
(not fastened), those of the lower story can be 
stored away until that time in the following 
summer when the degree of new growth of cane 
requires their being replaced. This practice 
makes it possible to till the space beneath the 
trellises and use it for some early spring crop. 
In my garden this under-trellis space is all 
used—some has been set to rhubarb, while an- 
other portion is sown each fall to winter 
spinach and the rest is spring sown to head 
lettuce. The lettuce thrives particularly well, 
lasting without running to seed until well into 
August, seemingly getting just about the right 
amount of sunshine early in the season to make 
it grow well, and enough of shade during the 
hot weather to keep it from bolting to seed. I 
have my trellises side by side, and six feet 
apart. The space between the trellises is also 
used for radish, beet, and sizilar early veg- 
etables that are out of the way before the 
blackberry picking season is begun. And later, 
when the berry picking is over, this same space 
is set to late-started early cabbage (larly Jer- 
sey Wakefield), and rutabaga turnips. 
iNew York. G. Brown. 
‘ proved to work so 
satisfactorily with those first settings that I 
