April, 1912 
AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 
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white that is absolutely hardy, giving ex- 
cellent crops; but the grape needs long 
seasons to thoroughly ripen it. 
Now, what will you do with your grapes? 
Certainly you need not plant a vineyard 
unless you have room for it; but you can 
grow tons of grapes all over your house, 
all over your barns, climbing some of your 
line trees, covering rockeries, shading ar- 
bors, and in your small garden a few vines 
can be tied to posts. I never yet saw a 
home that had not room for a grape vine. 
Growing on a house it does not create 
dampness, but will prevent dampness; only, 
do not nail the vine to the boards, but tie it 
to wires that are stapled across the side of 
the house. Do the same with your barn. 
A small family can almost live on grapes, 
with eggs and milk. At any rate, whatever 
else you leave out in your country home- 
making, do not leave out a full supply 
of grapes. 
Both the setting and the trimming of 
grapes are simple affairs, not demanding 
anything like the fussing that is advised at 
times. Any of the grapes I have named 
will grow perfectly in good garden. soil. 
You can plant old bones and old leather 
and all the rest of such stuff around the 
roots and also without doing any good. 
Keep the ground well stirred, and if you 
mulch continuously, I do not know a bet- 
ter material than ashes—anthracite coal 
ashes with a mixture of common wood 
ashes. The trimming of grapes requires 
sharp cutting back, to one bud the first 
year ; to two or three buds the second year, 
and after that you may train your limbs to 
trellises, or let them go hand over hand 
up the trees. In fhe Fall it will be quite 
enough for you to cut: back the arms to 
about one or two feet, and let the canes 
fall to the ground. In the Spring tie them 
up again. Of course, your grapes that 
climb trees must take their own sweet will, 
and as a consequence will give you less 
periect bunches, but plenty of them. The 
old Concord, which I have not included 
in my list, is still the big grape for utterly 
careless people. It will grow anywhere 
and everywhere, and it will give a lot of 
grapes. These will not get really sweet in 
a short season, not north of New York. 
If I were sure of a very long season I 
would put in Jefferson, Concord, and one 
or two more. 
RHE, CARE OF THE: APPLE TREE 
By M. ROBERTS CONOVER 
HE suburbanite who has recently. pur- 
chased a country home often finds upon 
his property some apple trees of bearing 
age. The average man looks upon these 
with pride, delighting in their sturdy limbs 
and spreading branches and dreaming of the 
ultimate harvest. Then he turns his atten- 
tion to his peach and plum trees, diligently 
pruning and spraying to perfect their fruit 
It is a mistake to neglect the apple tree, for 
although it may not succumb as easily as 
shorter-lived trees, it is vulnerable. 
Apple trees will exist as shades trees on 
sod ground and yield some apples, but the 
man who grows treés for fruit cultivates 
them. This cultivation should be as regu- 
lar as that required to raise a crop of vege- 
tables. 
may draw the essential elements from the 
soil and cultivation conserves this moisture 
in the soil. 
The fruit of the apple tree is borne upon 
small spurs from the main branch and these 
spurs are grown during the previous sea- 
son. The fruit buds from which spring the 
blossoms are perfected for this function 
during the latter part of the previous season. 
Thus a crop depends upon favorable condi- 
The apple requires moisture that it 
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