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Horticultural Notes 
Varieties of Small Fruits 
The importance of finding varieties of 
fruits or vegetables adapted to one’s local 
conditions cannot be emphasized too 
strongly. It often makes all the difference 
between success and failure. Yet it is 
something that must be worked out for 
each section of the country and often for 
each individual farm. New and better 
varieties are constantly appearing. It 
makes one step lively to try out even the 
most promising, but it is well worth >ur 
while to keep track of them. It is an 
interesting game, and every grower can 
get a great deal of enjoyment out of it 
if he will. 
A new variety introduced in a com¬ 
munity will frequently change the entire 
type of farming in that section. Take, 
for instance, the introduction of Earliana 
tomato. It has made Swedesboro the 
greatest early tomato growing section. 
An outsider can hardly comprehend the 
great changes in farming here that have 
come about through the introduction of 
this single variety. Much effort, time 
and money have been spent by many of 
us in order to find something just a little 
better than Earliana, but we have not 
found it yet. That is no reason why we 
should not keep right on searching for a 
better. Just so with all other crops. We 
should be on the lookout for something 
better. Sometimes an exchange of opin¬ 
ions will help in our search. 
Strawberries we grow commercially, 
and out of a great list of new ones that 
have been tried there are two that I be¬ 
lieve are so well suited to conditions that 
they will again put South Jersey on the 
map as a strawberry growing section. 
They are Campbell’s Early and Lupton. 
For three years we grew Campbell’s 
Early, Premier and Matthews side by 
side. Campbell’s and Matthews ripened 
about the same time, and Matthews gave 
larger fruit, but there was a tendency to 
have one large berry only to the cluster, 
thus giving a very small yield. Premier 
was a few days later than Campbell’s 
and did not give as large a yield on sandy 
soil as Campbell’s, but the fruit was 
strictly first-class in every way, and in 
sections where the soil is heavier it will 
undoubtedly do as well as Campbell’s does 
on lighter soil. For South Jersey condi¬ 
tions Campbell’s is by far the best early 
variety that has as yet come to our notice. 
Years ago Gandy was a very popular late 
berry, but it seems to lose its popularity. 
A better cropping late berry was desired. 
Chesapeake appeared and looked promis¬ 
ing. but proved very disappointing except 
under irrigation, as it was a poor bed- 
maker. Now comes Lupton, and it is being 
planted in a very large way. It is a 
little lacking in quality, but Jiighly de¬ 
sirable in other ways, and nearly always 
brings a premium over other varieties on 
any market. Many growers claim they 
can grow as fine Lupton with ordinary 
care as they could do with Chesapeake 
under irrigation and high feeding. An¬ 
other strawberry we fruited last year for 
the first time was Howard No. 17. It is 
an early mid-season variety, and on first 
trial the most promising new variety we 
have ever fruited. If it does as well in 
the years to come it is truly an acquisi¬ 
tion. 
Of the everbearers we find Superb aud 
Progressive still the two standard sorts, 
but with many new ones coming along it 
may not be long before there are some 
great improvements over these. 
Cane fruits we do not grow commer¬ 
cially, but there are a few for home pse. 
In standard blackberries we like Blowers 
best of all. Its large berries are certainly 
fine for table use, and the canes are hardy 
and thrifty, doing better on our sandy 
soil than do the Joy or Eldorado. We 
also like the Ewing’s Wonder. This 
grows like a grapevine, and is far ahead 
of Himalaya, which makes too much vine 
growth and too little fruit. Ewing’s is 
just loaded in late August with as fine 
berries as one could desire. For best re¬ 
sults this should he trained on an arbor. 
Macatawa Everbearing blackberry wc find 
to be more like a dewberry in habit of 
growth, and does not bear fruit in the 
Fall at all. 
In raspberries, we like St. Regis or 
Ranere, as it seems to withstand diseases 
that soon get the best of other varieties 
on our sandy soil. 
In gooseberries we have Downing, Josse- 
lyn, Pearl and Oregon Champion, and 
the Oregon Champion leads them all for 
yield of fruit. Not so large a berry as 
the others, but for planting commercially 
it looks like the most promising of the 
four. 
In currants it seems as though Perfec¬ 
tion was really all the name implies for 
a currant growing section. Here none 
succeeds very well, but this comes nearest. 
Who knows but what some day there will 
be one found that can grow well on our 
Warm, sandy soils? 
There is real fun and satisfaction in 
searching for new varieties and better 
methods of doing things, and though one 
never finds just what he desires, he still 
has a feeling that it has been worth 
while. Thousands of farmers in our 
country have been doing their part to add 
to the better things in it by testing out 
each year some one or more varieties of 
fruits or vegetables that appeal to them 
most, and they know it pays. Success to 
them. They are making for “America 
more fruitful and more beautiful.” 
WILLARD B. KILLE. 
Gloucester Co., N. J. 
Fruit from Old Trees 
Owners who have old apple trees about 
the farm buildings or along the fences 
are beginning to realize that there is a 
possibility of realizing something from 
them. This is being done on a great many 
places by pruning, spraying aud cultiva¬ 
tion. and without the use of any fertilizer 
at all, except that which is produced by a 
cover crop of clover or rye. A Connecti¬ 
cut grower picked 14 bbls. of fancy North¬ 
ern Spy from a tree which a few years 
ago was not producing 5 bu. of fruit. An¬ 
other orchard was about to be cut down, 
but the son was allowed to prune, spray 
and cultivate; it produced a good crop of 
fruit this past season and the orchard 
will not be cut down. 
The trees in many old orchards are too 
close. It will take some nerve, but cut 
out every other tree in each row. If you 
cut the first, third, fifth, etc., in the first 
row, cut the second, fourth, sixth, etc., in 
the next row. Give the trees plenty of 
light and an open air space; have it so 
you can drive a sprayer from one row 
to the next. 
Now is the proper season to pi-une; cut 
out all dead and diseased limbs; make all 
cuts with a saw, not an ax, and close 
to the main limbs; don’t leave stubs. 
Then cut out the branches which rub, 
thinning the top of the tree so that each 
branch will be free from other branches. 
If the tree is vei’y high, don’t cut away 
too much of the top; we must establish 
lower limbs before we cut the high top 
branches. Take several yeax-s to get the 
head down to a reasonable height. 
An old orchard, or even a single tree, 
will not require much if any fertilizer the 
first season after receiving a heavy prun¬ 
ing, if the laud is cultivated. We must 
be careful not to stimulate the tree too 
much and get a mass of rank-growing 
sprouts. If the tx-ees have not been cul¬ 
tivated for years, the plowing should be 
done cai’efully, allowing the plow to run 
just deep enough to break up the sod; 
don’t try to turn deep furrows. A good 
disking is often more satisfactory than 
trying to plow. The feeding roots are 
near the surface, and deep plowing will 
destroy a large part of them. After the 
trees begin to produce crops of fruit they 
will requii'e more or less fertilizer, either 
as commercial fertilizer or stable manure. 
Usually a dormant spray should be given 
after pruning, either early in the Spring, 
or it may be applied as a delayed dor¬ 
mant when the buds are starting, using 
lime-sulphur solution, Winter strength. 
It takes several years to set out and bring 
a young orchard into profitable bearing, 
but some of the pi’esent neglected trees 
can be made to produce paying crops in 
one, two or three years. Some say an old 
tree is worthless, hut suppose with a little 
care it produces 4 to 6 bbls. of good fruit, 
which sells for $25, what is it worth? 
Twenty-five dollars is 10 per cent on an 
investment of $250. S. P. uollister. 
