June, 1909 
AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 
Bordeaux mixture two or three times very 
early in the season to prevent blight black rot 
and other fungus troubles. To preserve from 
the birds many bag them; that is, tie around 
the bunches paper bags. This does not hin- 
der good ripening. With me, however, the 
only troublesome bird is the oriole, who 
leaves us about the first of September. He is 
a special pest because he picks into a hundred 
fruits, sucking a drop of juice from each, but 
eating none. On the whole the grape is easily 
grown, and gives splendid results in propor- 
tion to the trouble it causes. It will grow 
in any good garden soil; and for trimming you 
must cut away nearly all the wood for the 
first two years. After that tie to trellises or 
posts. The varieties I have named, after 
trimming in the fall, need no covering, but 
should be laid down to the ground. It is an 
easy matter to grow grape seedlings, and I 
advise you to keep a few growing, with the 
expectation of originating something worth 
the while. You should get fruit by the third 
year. 
What we are trying to do in this article 
is to get at those fruits that bear very quickly 
after planting, and give a great abundance of 
food. It is just possible that you may care 
to sell a surplus, but for the present we want 
the food. Going out from the city you have 
your cow and your horse and your chickens. 
That gives you milk and eggs, and luckily you 
can get all the berries and currants you want 
by the second year. I am a believer in straw- 
berries as much as you are, but I strenuously 
advise a beginner not to undertake a big 
strawberry bed. There is no small fruit that 
causes so much work, and that is so liable to 
be a failure. If grown for market there are 
always too many or too few, and strawberry 
bankrupts are common. ‘The berry for you 
+o begin with is the red raspberry. It gives 
enormous crops from a small bit of ground, 
and they need not be replanted for ten or 
fifteen years. The black raspberry must be 
replanted every four or five years, and the 
strawberry every second year. I have had red 
raspberries standing for fifteen years, and 
doing pretty well to the last. You have only 
to cut out the dead canes each year, tie up 
the new ones, and mulch heavily with com- 
post. The only variety that is helding its 
own for common use is the Cuthbert, while 
the Golden Queen, a sport from the Cuth- 
bert, is yellow. The only very early variety 
that has proved worth the while with me is 
Marlboro. The Loudon is a splendid berry 
in size and quality, and it is well enough for 
home use—not fit for shipping to market. 
Cuthbert sometimes kills back, but generally 
gives a good crop. Of the purples, which are 
crosses between black and red plant, Schaffer, 
So far as I have been able to test them, the 
others are in one way or another a failure. 
Do not be coaxed into planting highly adver- 
tised new sorts. For black raspberries I think 
it likely that Black Diamond and Cumberland 
are the two best, although Kansas is still a 
splendid berry for home use. Black Diamond 
is very early and very sweet. The Cumber- 
land is a huge berry, very firm and large, and 
prolific. 
With me the blackberry is a favorite, and 
it is a good thing for a small country home 
to set out a few plants, where the soil is fairly 
rich, or along fences—where the canes can be 
useful in keeping out intruders. You can let 
the blackberry take care of itself for a good 
many years, and it will bring you a good sup- 
ply of fruit. When the canes have spread by 
suckerage, as they will, you must cut tracks 
through for the plow and cultivator. You 
must cut out the old canes each year, and after 
growth has ceased cut off the new canes to 
about six feet. The best variety for planting 
in limited space, or extensively, is Eldorado, 
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