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Summer Pruning of Grapevines 
T have a very fine selection of grapes, 
and owing to the lack of room I planted 
the vines only five feet apart each way, 
not caring for a large supply of any one 
kind, but desiring more a variety of the 
best kinds. I expected to keep the vines 
trimmed, down, to a minimum, but the 
ground is so rich that I find it a task; 
in fact, it is beyond my knowledge of the 
science of. grape-growing to know how to 
do the thing I.wish to do. I always bag 
my grapes, chiefly to protect them from 
birds, which are very numerous, some 
varieties taking special pleasure m pick¬ 
ing into the ripe grapes, and then the bees 
suck out the juice of every grape that 
has been broken open. I find it very 
difficult to sack the grapes if the vines 
during the growing season are permitted 
to grow and ramble at will over the 
trellis. The thing I want to know chiefly 
is about Summer pruning, so as to re¬ 
strain the exuberance of the vines under 
these circumstances. a. w. f. 
Whitehall. Ill 
Five feet in the row is altogether too 
close to plant vigorous growing grape 
Verieties, especially on fertile soils. The 
commercial vineyardist gives at least eight 
feet and with some varieties often 10. 
As I see it, Summer pruning will avail 
little or nothing in this instance, as 
pinching back the growing shoots induces 
the growth of laterals, which in turn 
make the growth more compacted than 
before. Pinching back is usually prac¬ 
ticed in order to keep the vine within its 
allotted space on the trellis, and also for 
the purpose of inducing lateral formation, 
as some of the varieties are said to pro¬ 
duce better fruit from them rather than 
from the canes. To my way of thinking 
Summer pruning has been greatly over¬ 
rated. Fuller, in “The Grape Cul'turist,” 
discusses somewhat extensively Summer 
pruning. He advises pinching back three 
times during the season, not only the 
shoots, but the laterals thereon. One or 
two inches are simply pinched off of the 
growing apex, and this is done with the 
thumb and finger. Summer pruning 
should be done fairly early in the season 
and should not be practiced after the 
fruit begins to mature. To my way of 
thinking, the excessive growth in this in¬ 
stance can be checked through pruning 
longer, i. e., the retention of more fruit 
wood. Should this fail, then I would 
utilize, one of the methods of training 
that disposes the fruiting wood more uni¬ 
formly over the trellis. f. e. gladwin. 
Missouri Fruit Notes 
Fheagnus longipes. a fruiting shrub of 
the oleaster family, bore its usual heavy 
crop of berries, about half the size of 
cherries, dull red in color, two small 
seeds, agreeable tart flavor and well rel¬ 
ished by those who taste them. They 
make a fair jelly at least, and probably 
have, other good uses. The children love 
to visit the bush, and ho berries go to 
waste. Here is a shrub, in height eight 
to 10 feet, that is both ornamental in its 
leaves and fruitful, and very rarely fails 
to bear. It has no insect or fungus 
enemies and requires no spraying. It is 
surely worthy of general dissemination, 
but in recent times I have seen but one 
catalogue that listed it. 
Th(> same fate seems to have befallen 
the Dewey peach. I have had this 
variety for a number of years, and have 
only words of praise for it. It ripens 
here from the 5th to the 15th of July, 
following Red Bird and coming in before 
Eureka, Alton and Carman. It is above 
average size for the earlies. yellow flesh, 
deep crimson all over, rather fuzzy, good 
quality and a very regular yielder of 
fruit, but its name has disappeared from 
most of the catalogues. 
A new candidate for favor among the 
extra earlies is the Early Rose. It bore 
here for the first time. The fruit was 
not uniform in size; there was a cluster 
of small ones in the top. but those scat¬ 
tered through the limbs were of good 
size, running about as large as any of 
the extra earlies grow. I measured one 
and the circumference was eight inches. 
They are beautifully colored, flesh red. 
for a quarter inch under- the skin, a full 
clingstone, firm and excellent in quality. 
It ripens just after Greensboro, and most 
of the good things said about it by 
the introducer seem to be deserved as 
far as could be judged from one tree and 
one season. Apricots were a good crop 
this year, and this really fine fruit sold 
readily at 25 cents a quart berry box. 
A neighbor with half a dozen full trees 
has been selling literally for weeks. 
Owing, I presume, to the heavy crop, 
they ripened over an abnormally long 
period and this aided their market¬ 
ing at high figures. Two severe 
windstorms, one from the north and one 1 
from the west, have swept over this re¬ 
gion recently, and put fruit trees to a 
hard test. All those which gave way 
split down from a crotch where iu some 
cases decay had made a beginning. We 
are now using wire or chains on all 
trees of this structure, and find such 
safeguards a perfect insurance against 
storms. l. r. Johnson. 
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