HOUSE AND GARDEN 
April, 1913 
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ing you will have to give it thereafter will 
depend upon the way you grow it: if you 
use an arbor or some similar surface 
simply train the main vines over it in any 
way you see fit, and each year cut the 
laterals back to within three or four eyes 
of it. This may seem like an awful waste 
of nice grape vine—but as the grapes are 
borne only on new wood, that is on wood 
of the same year’s growth, after fruiting 
only enough of it should be kept to furnish 
a starting point for next year's growth, 
which will bear next year’s fruit. 
If you find that your grapes are not 
ripening up as fast as they should in the 
fall, one of two things, or probably both, 
may be the matter—first that you have not 
been sufficiently severe with your pruning, 
and that the vine has set too many bunches 
of fruit, or secondly, the fertilizer which 
you have been applying is deficient in 
potash. A “2-8-10” fertilizer is very suit¬ 
able for grapes. If you use an animal 
manure, you should make up the deficiency 
by using plenty of wood ashes, or a little 
muriate of potash. 
HOME GARDEN ORDER FOR SMALL FRUITS. 
(An Abundance of Fruit for Years to Come For $10.) 
Strawberry 
Raspberry ., 
Blackberry . 
Dewberry . . 
Currants .. 
Gooseberry . 
Grapes .... 
[ x 1 
or 
[ "x 2 " 
3 x 6 
5x7 
5x7 
( 
PLANT VARIETY NUM¬ 
BER 
Climax, early ioo 
Marshall, midseason ioo 
Lester Lovett, late ioo 
The King, red, early 6 
Cardinal, red, late 6 
Cuthbert, crimson 6 
Mumber, black 6 
Mercerau, early 6 
Erie, main 6 
Premo, early 6 
Lucretia 6 
Perfection, red 6 
4'5 apart Lee]s Prolific, black 4 
White Grape, white 2 
Downing, pale green 1 
5-6 apart Red Jacket, red 1 
Industry, red 1 
Green Mountain, E’y 
white 1 
Moore’s Early, black 1 
5 or more Compbell’s Early 
apart (Concord) 1 
Delaware, red 1 
■Catawba, dusky red 1 
Pocklington, golden 1 
M.50 
1.00 
1.00 
■25 
.40 
.40 
•25 
.40 
•25 
•25. 
•25 
•75 
• 3 o 
.20 
• 15 
■15 
.20 
•50 
•25 
•25 
•25 
• 25 
• 25 
$ 9-45 
Framing the House with Vines 
(Continued from page 297) 
plants, and will subsist almost any place 
with little difficulty, but for house use 
some provision must be made to train the 
vines upon the wall. 
There is one consideration to be taken 
when thinking of planting directly upon 
the house wall in the manner here sug¬ 
gested. Select those vines which are free 
from insects and litter of falling blossoms. 
You will find that the most satisfactory 
will develop into those leafy sorts men¬ 
tioned in the beginning of this article. 
When you approach the problem of the 
porch the number and variety of vines ap¬ 
plicable is considerably increased. Here 
let us repeat again the warning. Follow 
the lines of construction and do not make 
vines grow over apparently empty spaces. 
If you desire screening for the porch or 
shade, use rectangular trellises or trellis 
arches and coax your vines on these. A 
wyoNfj- 
The Winged Message 
Noah’s messenger was a dove. In 
Solomon’s time, pigeons were trained 
to carry messages. Brutus used them 
at the siege of Modena. They served 
the Turks in their fights against the 
Crusaders. In mediaeval wars they 
were more useful than ever before. 
France had a carrier-pigeon mail 
service, with messages reduced by 
photography and read through a 
microscope. 
Even today carrier pigeons are 
utilized as news-bearers in isolated 
parts of Europe. 
In America, the land of the tele¬ 
phone, the carrier pigeon is bred only 
for racing. The winged word has 
taken the place of the winged mes¬ 
senger. 
Pigeons may fly more than a mile 
a minute, but the telephone is as 
quick as speech itself. 
The dove is the emblem of peace. 
The telephone is the instrument of 
peace. The telephone lines of the 
Bell System unite a hundred million 
people in one national family. 
American Telephone and Telegraph Company 
And Associated Companies 
One Policy One System Universal Service 
Rhododendron catawbiense 
True American species 
“And to paint these home pictures we need chiefly 
American material. We must face this deadly parallel.” 
What We Really Plant 
70% European trees and shrubs 
and horticultural varieties. 
20% Chinese and Japanese. 
10% American. 
What We Ought to Plant 
70% American trees and shrubs, 
i. e., native to America. 
20 7o Chinese and Japanese. 
10% European and horticultura 
Above quoted from Wilhelm Miller’s “What England 
Can Teach Us About Gardening” 
I^ELSEY’S Hardy American Plants, Rare Rhodo- 
dendrons, Azaleas, Andromedas, Leucothoes, 
Kalmias. The largest collection in existence of the 
finest native ornamentals. The only kind of stock 
to produce permanent effects. 
HIGHLANDS NURSERY 
3,800 feet elevation in the 
Carolina Mountains. 
BOXFORD NURSERY 
Boxford, Mass. 
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information of 
HARLAN P. KELSEY. Owner 
SALEM, MASS. 
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