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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



June, 1912 



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Preventive Work for Early 

 Summer 



DURING June and Julj r , when vegetation is 

 growing rapidly, keep. in mind the need of 

 cultivation to aerate the soil and let the sunshine 

 through to sweeten it and prevent acidity. Cul- 

 tivation also mixes together the soil and fertilizer 

 and pulverizes it so that it will hold more moisture. 



With raspberries, blackberries, currants and 

 gooseberries in rows from seven to ten feet apart 

 (as they should have been planted), go through 

 them with a horse and cultivator several times dur- 

 ing the summer. The hand wheel cultivators are 

 less serviceable for these and tree fruits. A culti- 

 vator having several small fine teeth is best, al- 

 though any ordinary one-horse cultivator will do 

 very well. If the soil is baked hard between the 

 rows, go through them first with a light plow and 

 plow the ground between the rows but not deep 

 enough to disturb the roots. The one-horse culti- 

 vator widened out into a V-shaped harrow will do 

 this very nicely. After a hard rain and before the 

 soil bakes, go through the rows again with the 

 cultivator. If you have some young trees, follow 

 the same general plan, except that it may facilitate 

 the work to use a small harrow instead of the 

 cultivator if there are no crops or fillers planted 

 between the trees. 



With a few exceptions, it is of course best to do 

 all the pruning of tree fruits when dormant, but 

 cane fruits must be pruned and thinned in their 

 growing season. The sucker varieties of rasp- 

 berries (red and yellow) and blackberries, if left to 

 grow in rich soil without thinning or pruning, will 

 make a thick matted row of tall canes and will bear 

 small berries. If you have hardy varieties of rasp- 

 berries and blackberries, train them to tree form. 

 Thin out the plants in the rows, leaving the strongest 

 ones an average distance of one foot apart. When 

 these canes are about four feet high, pinch off the 

 tops to cause lateral branches. Canes grown in 

 this way need some support; set posts along the row 

 ten feet apart and nail arms horizontally on the 

 posts about three feet from the ground; then fasten 

 wires to the ends of the arms, on both sides of the 

 row. In a cold climate where there is uncertainty 

 about winter-killing, the best way is to thin the 

 canes in the summer but not to shorten them, as 

 long, unpruned canes are more easily laid down and 

 covered. 



Currants and gooseberries are better pruned 

 when dormant. Strong-growing varieties of grapes, 

 in rich soil, are apt to produce too much wood, and 

 a little thinning in early summer will prevent the 

 vine from setting more fruit than it can ripen. Do 

 not pinch off too much of the new growth. Early 

 in June tie the new growth of the vines to a trellis 

 or to wires. If the renewal system is used, which 

 is best for semi-hardy varieties in a cold climate, 

 two to four of the strongest vines are trained fan- 

 shaped on wires or over a trellis, and all the others 

 are pinched off. This renewal fan system has been 

 found excellent in localities where grapes would 

 winter-kill if trained permanently to a trellis. 



Early summer pruning of fruit trees is recom- 

 mended when it is desired to induce bearing. 

 Summer pruning is a shock to a tree and sometimes, 

 though not always, it has the effect of making pro- 

 ductive a non-bearing tree that is old enough to 

 fruit. Be careful not to cut off too much wood. 



There is no way to make sure of a good crop of 

 European plums except to destroy the curculio. 

 If you have chickens, place a coop of them under 



