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All the Cane Fruits Worth While 
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overcrowded plant causing all kinds of 
trouble. Early spring is the best 
time to prune. The plants are very 
hardy and require no winter mulch, 
but the soil must not be run down. 
The currant worm also attacks the 
gooseberry, and the plants must be 
sprayed in the same way as the cur¬ 
rants. Borers and San Jose scale are 
I troublesome at times, and must not 
be neglected lest they quickly destroy 
the plants. Handle these pests the 
same as if they were on currants. 
Mildew, that bugaboo of the goose¬ 
berry, can be controlled by a very 
little effort, using a spray of one 
ounce of potassium sulphide, dis¬ 
solved in two gallons of water. Spray 
the plants at the first indication and 
every ten days during the fruiting 
season. 
In regard to varieties, the large 
English sorts are head and shoulders 
above our own in quality, and the 
only excuse for not growing them is 
their supposed susceptibility to mil¬ 
dew. If you want the best, grow the 
English varieties and fight the mil¬ 
dew ; try Industry, a large, red, 
downy fruit that is high in quality. 
Crown Bob and Red Jacket are also 
good red varieties. Columbus is a 
good large fruited yellow berry. 
Downing is the best of the American 
varieties. It is a very large producer 
and is grown largely for canning or 
preserving, for which it has no equal. 
Dewberries are what we might term 
an extra early blackberry, and have 
become very popular in the last few 
years. They add variety and length 
of season to our small fruits and are 
certainly worthy of a place in any 
garden. They should not be given as 
rich a soil as the other cane fruits, 
else their growth will be soft and in¬ 
crease the liability of winter killing. 
The best method of growing dewber¬ 
ries is to let the plants sprawl on the 
ground, and throw a little salt hay or 
other protecting materials over them 
in the fall. In spring the best shoots 
can be tied to a trellis and cut back 
to about 3' or 4' of stem. After the 
fruiting period cut the old canes off 
at the ground line. Lucretia is the 
best and most popular variety. 
Another Variety 
The Loganberry is supposed to be a 
cross between the raspberry and 
blackberry, and if appearances count 
for anything this is its true origin. 
Its flavor is a peculiar mixture of 
the two mentioned fruits, while it 
grows very like the dewberry, spread¬ 
ing all over the ground. It is advis¬ 
able to let it lie in this condition over 
the winter, covering with a little litter 
to prevent winter killing. In spring 
the plant can be tied to a trellis and 
pruned, shortening the shoots accord¬ 
ing to the condition of the plant. 
Why Not Your Own Nursery? 
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and it is as unpleasant in its way 
as barrenness is in its. Of course, 
it is much more easily corrected, but 
it is my experience that gardeners 
are loathe to do the heroic—I am 
using the term “gardeners” in the 
generic sense, let me hasten to ex¬ 
plain, and not as applied to working 
gardeners, who seldom show any 
reluctance when it comes to destruc¬ 
tive activities! Don’t be afraid to 
root up—and out. Give things the 
room that they need, but do not give 
them any more room than they need. 
This should be the aim. Do not let 
paths become crowded by encroach¬ 
ing of plants along their borders, so 
that these borders have the effect of 
bulging with their contents. Few 
things are more destructive of beauty 
in a garden than this stuffiness. But 
do not think to correct it by taking 
out the border plants alone; indeed, 
it is not often necesary or wise to re¬ 
move them, for many times they 
themselves are not responsible, but 
are actually crowded forward and 
over by the pressure from behind. 
Relieve this, if it exists, first; then 
perhaps you will find that the front 
row of plants is none too near the 
edge; or if they are a little too near 
it will be necessary only to slide 
them back a few inches, without 
actually taking them up. 
Beds and Borders 
Garden design of the exact and 
formal type is utterly destroyed by 
the use of tall growing species in its 
planting. And garden design that is 
not formal suffers if tall growing 
plants are allowed to approach too 
near to each other in separate parts 
of the scheme. Main lines of the 
design should never be planted out, 
as they will be if tall and rank 
growing vegetation bounds them. 
Always work from the ground up 
and back along every path and open 
way, unless you wish to hide that 
path or that way. This rule is in¬ 
variable ; and, save along a half wild, 
twisting footway through a half wild 
garden, I would never advise allow¬ 
ing a plant over 20" high to approach 
nearer than 24" to the walk’s edge. 
There are plenty of little dwarf 
growing things to form ribbons 
along the line between walk and bor¬ 
der, so there is no excuse for per¬ 
mitting this line to be obscured. 
It is extremely difficult to plant 
permanently the beds which go to 
make up the formal garden in its 
most highly developed state. And, 
indeed, I do not know that it is ever 
desirable to try to plant it with per¬ 
manent growth; for such a flower 
garden must be perpetually in fullest 
flower if its full decorative value is 
to be realized; and there is no plant 
in the world that will blossom all 
the season through, beginning with 
spring and keeping it up until frost. 
Judicious selection, however, will go 
a long way toward making the work 
of maintaining the classically formal 
garden less arduous and less ex¬ 
pensive. 
Unity of Scheme 
It should be considered as a unit, 
and planted for unity, under the 
usual circumstances of its develop¬ 
ment. Therefore, one variety of 
plant—or at most, two—should be 
used at a time in it, and this should 
be repeated in every bed or section. 
The lower the growth the better; 
therefore, let us name the lowest 
growths first. There are pansies, 
verbenas, ageratum and alyssum 
all practically carpeting plants. In 
beds of these the little bulbs of tube¬ 
roses may be effectively scattered, 
every fortnight until July, thus pro¬ 
viding an endless supply of these 
spikes of fragrance lifted above the 
lower growing flower all summer 
long. A massing of the beautiful 
blue of ageratum, for example, with 
tuberoses is effective with almost 
any low growth, however, so agera¬ 
tum need not necessarily be the 
choice for the bedder. 
Geraniums it seems useless to say 
very much about, for everyone 
knows all about them already. One 
of their most disagreeable faults to 
me is their legginess when seen from 
anywhere but above. This is over- 
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