1410 
The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Fruit on the Farm 
By a Woman Who Knows 
Part II. 
The Greatest Combination 
Improving tiie Diet. — I believe that 
the average city worker’s table, on ac¬ 
count of his proximity to the market, is 
better supplied with fresh fruit through 
the Summer than is that of the average 
farmer. The buying of Winter apples 
and of fruit for preserving is practicable 
for the farmer, but his table can be bet-’ 
ter supplied with fresh fruit from his own 
planting, and there is little excuse for not 
having plenty of some kinds. I am going 
to recommend only that whb-h we have 
found does well in this section and the 
things requiring a minimum of labor. 
I5eginning with the Spring, can anything 
quite take the place of a few hills of 
rhubarb? It comes when we are hungry 
for something fresh and green, ttnd re¬ 
quires very little care. If there is any¬ 
thing more palatable and welcome for 
sauce or pies in the Spring than green 
currants it is green gooseberries. The 
ripe currants need no recommendation for 
jelly, and liow the little folks enjoy a 
few real ripe gooseberries! Not much 
danger of their eating too many. The 
bushes are too thorny for them to pick 
many. A half dozen well-grown bushes 
of each will ordinarily furnish plenty of 
fruit for a family of five, and after once 
planted about the only care they need, 
aside from keeping the sod away, is a 
dusting or spraying for worms as soon as 
they make their appearance. The farmer's 
wife or daughter can do that as well as 
anyone. 
Cherries and Grapes.—-A couple of 
cherry trees will give much pleasure and 
passed for eating and cooking until_ the I 
Winter apples are ready, and any farm I 
home would be more attractive for having ] 
these trees planted near it for shade and 
fruit. Apple trees can be set in the Fall I 
if well mulched, and are all ready to start! 
growing in the Spring. Set them at least ' 
110 ft. apart. They will need to be sprayed 
for San Jos6 scale when dormant, and 
must, be sprayed for codling moth and 
other troubles to insure perfect fruit; but 
it need not be a great task to attend to 10 
or a dozen trees, now that we are able to 
buy the spray materials ready to dilute 
with water, and a hand sprayer and buck- ! 
et are all that is needful for a few years. 
When the trees become larger an exten- 
sion will be needed to reach all parts. 
A Permanent Improvement.—- Now do 
not understand me to say that intelligent 
culture would not improve any of these 
fruits. That is not. what I mean. Hut I ; 
do mean that, given a space in which to | 
grow, and only very ordinary attention, 
the fruits mentioned will furnish an am¬ 
ple supply for home use. Some years ago 
we had a Danish couple among our work¬ 
ers. Coming from a country where grapes 
were so expensive that they had seen but j 
never had tasted any, they could hardly , 
comprehend that it was permissible to eat 
as many as they wanted while working 1 
with them. It is a shame that here where 
fruit can be grown so easily, many farm¬ 
ers’ families are not allowed all they can 
consume, just for the lack of a little at¬ 
tention to planting the right things. Don’t 
fail to set some Summer apples this Fall; 
also a few- hills of rhubarb. While not a 
fruit, it answers the purpose at a time 
when fresh fruit is craved, and is a very 
A Display of Farm Fruit 
fruit for many pies. Our favorite cherry 
is May Duke. It is prolific, not so sour 
and more meaty than Early Kichmond. 
and a little earlier. For later use, Mont¬ 
morency is a sure bearer of firm, large 
fruit. After they are started to growing, 
cherries seem to need very little attention. 
Grapes only ask to be planted, staked and 
t "immed to give us an abundance of their 
fruit. For ourselves we have a row of 
grapevines along the drive to the barn, 
planted about 15 ft. apart. Posts were 
set and two wires stretched upon which 
the grapes are trained. Currant and 
gooseberry bushes are set between the 
grapes in the row. so that we have a fruit 
hedge on that side of the drive. Our fa¬ 
vorite black grape is Worden, very prolific, 
a little earlier than Concord. The berries 
are larger, sweeter, more tender, and the 
bunches compact. Moore’s Diamond is a 
dependable white variety of excellent qual¬ 
ity and fine, compact bunches of large ber¬ 
ries. All these things except the rhubarb 
would better be set in the Spring. 
Apples. —Now we. come to the apple— 
the queen of all fruits for utility. With 
us it has become a staple Summer food, 
and I know would be used to advantage 
on any farm. One tree when well grown 
will furnish plenty of fruit for an average 
family, but we always practice setting 
two of each variety, as something might 
happen to one. Yellow Transparent is a 
sure and early bearer and comes into fruit 
young. It is the favorite apple-dumpling 
apple, as it cooks so easily. Red Astra- 
elian is unsurpassed for jelly, and is also 
a good cooker. Early Harvest is delicious 
to eat out of hand, and will also cook up 
into sauce. These three varieties for Sum¬ 
mer use. followed closely by Maiden 
I flush. Some of the surplus of this apple 
I always try to dry for Winter use in our 
southern home. 1 have found it excellent 
for sauce, especially if 1 have a handful 
of dried cherries to add to the apples when 
cooking. The Maiden Blush and Fall 
It umbo supply us with fresh apples unsur¬ 
welcome substitute. I have not recom¬ 
mended berries, as they would prove a dis¬ 
appointment if neglected, and they require 
more care than they are likely to be given 
ou the general farm. 
Indiana. mrs. lewis cowing. 
Lawn Grass Under Trees 
I wish to grow grass ou a lawn that 
is shaded by three very large trees 
(maples). Underneath the trees the 
ground is bare, and 1 want grass to grow 
there. Will you state the kind of seed 
to procure and the method to go about it? 
Hyattsville, Md. A, D. 
The soil should be deeply broken and 
made perfectly fine, and it will be well 
to work into the soil some slaked lime 
before sowing. It is always a difficult 
matter to maintain a sod under trees. 
It is not altogether the shade, but the 
drying out and impoverishing the soil 
by the roots of the trees, '"he following 
will do as well as any you can get : Equal 
parts of Rhode Island bent. Red-top. creep¬ 
ing bent and Kentucky Blue grass, sown 
at rate of 50 lbs. an acre. After sowing 
the light grass seed sow about two pounds 
an acre of White clover seed and brush 
all in with smoothing harrow or rake. 
Then roll the lawn smooth. As soon as 
the grass is tall enough to catch in Spring 
start the lawn mower and clip the lawn 
once in 10 days in growing weather, and 
let all cut grass stay where it falls. It w ill 
soon disappear, and will be helping the 
lawn through the growing mulch. Never 
use stable manure, for it will bring in 
weeds, especially duckweed. Top-dress 
with raw bonemeal every Spring. 
W. F. MASSET. 
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