A VARIETY TEST AND GENERAL REMARKS 
-ON- 
BUSH FRUITS. 
\ 
CARL H. POTTER. 
GENERAL REMARKS. 
It is not the intention in issuing the present bulletin to 
go deeply into a consideration of the culture and general 
management of bush-fruit plantations. This information 
comes to the practical growers from many sources. 
Good and abundant ’cultivation and irrigation is of 
prime importance. A naturally cool and somewhat moist 
soil is desirable, and in the hotter portions of the State a 
partial shade is often necessary. This shade is sometimes 
obtained by planting the bushes near shade trees, or even 
in orchards, but this latter practice is not always looked 
upon with favor by our best orchardists. Again, simple 
mulching is used. 
The rows should be placed at a liberal distance apart 
and the hills should not be crowded in the rows. A few 
good, vigorous shoots should be grown, thus better to resist 
the ravages of the increasing number of our insect and 
disease enemies. 
Prof. Gillette, in Bulletin No. 47 of this station, names 
five or six insect enemies which are injurious to our bush 
fruits. Of these, perhaps the worst two are the currant- 
borer, Sesia tipuliformis , and the saw-fly, Pristophora grossn- 
larice. The former is easily removed and destroyed by the 
usual annual pruning, thinning and burning of the old canes. 
The larvae of the saw-fly are easily destroyed by the com¬ 
mon arsenical sprays. 
The ravages of the fruit-worm will be spoken of in con¬ 
nection with the fruits injured. 
Diseases of the plants have but recently become of 
economic importance on our grounds. They will furnish 
material for future study and publication. 
Our present plantations of bush fruits contain about 
