June, 1919 
WISCONSIN HORTICULTURE 
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hopes to secure hybrid berries an 
inch in diameter. She will pay 
$50.00 for especially fine wild 
plants with very large berries. 
But it is not only the size of the 
berry that counts. Miss White is 
willing to pay smaller prices for 
plants that have many berries of 
slightly smaller size if these ber- 
ries are of u usually .fine flavor. 
Some bushes bear much more 
heavily than others. On some 
bushes the berries stick so tight 
that when they are picked a piece 
of stem pulls off with the berries, 
or the berry is torn and the juice 
leaks out. On other plants the 
berries come off the stems just 
right. Berries from some bushes 
spoil soon after they are picked, 
while others will keep for a week. 
Some berries are black and others 
of a beautiful light, blue color. 
There are doubtless thousands of 
bushes in the country with berries 
three-quarters of an inch or more 
in diameter, and many other 
bushes with berries just a little 
smaller but of unusually fine qual- 
ity, but it is only by having peo- 
ple on the watch for them that 
these fine bushes can be discov- 
ered. 
Miss White will send full direc- 
tions, with measuring gauges, and 
bottles of formaldehyde for mail- 
ing large berries that are discov- 
ered. 
Pruning — Why and How. 
J. V. Beyer 
Is it possible that a tree would 
have two kinds of sap, one kind to 
make wood and another kind to 
make fruit? My readers must ad- 
mit that this is not possible, no 
more so than that the humans or 
animals would have two kinds of 
blood in their bodies, one kind to 
make flesh and fat and anonier to 
make bones and tissues. 
If this is true that the same sap 
in a tree that makes wood also 
makes fruit, then all we have to 
learn is how to direct the sap so 
the tree must make fruit, and that 
that is what we are pruning for. 
If we are watchful we will find 
that most trees will prefer to 
make wood rather than fruit. 
There certainly is a reason for 
this, but I will not go into detail 
on this part of the subject, as this 
would lead me away from what 
I mainly wanted to speak to you 
about. 
Another fact is that certain va- 
rieties of apple trees make more 
wood than others and therefore 
have to be pruned heavier. All 
the aforesaid points to the undis- 
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