F. LAGOMARSINO & SONS, SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA 29 
BERRIES and GRAPES 
Permanent Fruits for the Home Garden 

Requiring only average care and return- 
ing yearly an increasing volume of food 
supply, the small fruit part of your garden 
constitutes one of the most satisfying 
sources of the family food supply. Start 
with ‘your favorites and add each year until 
you have a nearly year-round supply of 
luscious fruit. 
BERRIES 
BLACKBERRY 
CORY THORNLESS 
An improved blackberry of giant size, 
free of thorns. 15c¢ each, $1.50 doz. 
BOYSENBERRY 
Increasingly popular every year. The 
largest of all berries, being 1 inch through 
and 1¥2 inches long. Of unequalled flavor 
and deliciousness. 15c¢ each, $1.50 doz. 
CURRANT 
CHERRY CURRANT 
A fine producer—rich red in color and un- 
excelled for jelly. 20c each, $2.00 doz. 
GOOSEBERRY 
OREGON CHAMPION 
This is the finest variety grown. Bears 
heavily and is disease resistant. 20c each, 
$2.00 doz. 
LOGANBERRY 
Fruit large and long, and of attractive red 
color. Prized for jams and jellies. 15¢ each, 
$1.50 doz. 
RASPBERRY 
Choose from the following popular varie- 
ties: Cuthbert, Early King, St. Regis, Black 
King. 15c¢ each, $1.50 doz. 
STRAWBERRIES 
ROCKHILL EVERBEARING 
Several years of trial plot tests and re- 
ports from both commercial growers and 
home gardeners are convincing proof of the 
fine productiveness of Rockhill. 75c¢ doz., 
$5.00 per 100. 
MASTODON EVERBEARING 
The choice of many for fine flavored 
berries. 40c doz., $2.75 per 100. 
OREGON PLUM and BANNER 
Bountiful crops of luscious fruit for spring 
gardens. A good preserve variety. 30c doz., 
$1.75 per 100. 
~YOUNGBERRY 
This is a cross between the Loganberry 
and Dewberry. It has the flavor of red 
raspberry, the juiciness of the Loganberry, 
the jelling quality of the blackberry. 15c 
each, $1.50 doz. 

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How to Grow Grapes 
Plant the young vines in rows, allowing 
a space of 8 feet between plants. Spread 
the roots carefully and pack the soil firmly 
about the roots. Cut the vines back to two 
buds as soon as planted. Thorough culti- 
vation is essential to healthy producing 
vines. Hoe close to the vines and keep out 
all weeds. String two stout wires between 
poles along each row. The second year, 
prune the vine back again to two buds. The 
third season choose the stronger of these 
two buds and let this one shoot grow to the 
top wire. The fourth year, rub out all buds 
except four strong ones, two on each side 
of the vines to train along each wire. The 
grown vine at the end of the fourth year 
will be pruned to the framework of these 
four main stems, which will bear the fruit. 
Vine ripened fruit has the best flavor. Cut 
the fruit from the vines with shears when 
fully ripe. Do all pruning in winter when 
the vines are dormant. 
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Growing Bush Fruits 
Set the plants in well drained loam soil 
that has had ample organic matter worked 
into it. Set-them 1 to 2 inches deeper than 
at the nursery and firm the soil well around 
the roots. 
Red raspberries, currants and gooseber- 
ries should be spaced 3 feet apart in the 
rows. Other berries require 4 feet. 
Set the pole supports in place and train 
the plants between two wires strung the 
length of the rows. Apply commercial fer- 
tilizer each spring, working it into soil. Cul- 
tivate frequently, keeping out all weeds and 
all suckers from the berry bushes. Hoe by 
hand close to the bushes. A mulch of peat 
moss will keep in the moisture and dis- 
courage weed growth. 
In the fall barnyard manure should be 
placed around the plant roots, both as pro- 
tection through the winter and as addi- 
tional humus and organic matter to be 
worked into the soil in the spring. 
Do all pruning in the winter, cutting back 
to old growth, stocky buds. 

GRAPES 
CORNICHON 
Reddish black, 
Neutral in flavor. 
EMPEROR 
A late ripener—third in importance in the 
state. A showy fruited variety and excellent 
in keeping qualities. Vines vigorous, fruit 
red. 
MALAGA 
Fruit whitish green, firm, and neutral in 
flavor, with Thompson Seedless, leading 
table grape variety, especially suited to hot 
climate. 
MUSCAT 
A wine and raisin grape doing best in hot 
summer regions. Fruit is aromatic flavored. 
OLIVETTE BLANCHE 
Its large fruit and regular elongated 
shape make it a lovely table grape. Not a 
commercial variety but fine for home gar- 
dens. 
RIBIER 
The principle black table grape of Cali- 
fornia with large jet black fruit. A good 
shipper and excellent keeping quality. 
THOMPSON SEEDLESS : 
Eighty per cent of the raisins of California 
are from this variety and it is also the lead- 
ing table grape of the state. Fruit greenish 
white. Does well in wide variety of soils 
and climates. 
TOKAY 
Favored table grape for home gardens, 
and much desired for its rich flavor. 
juicy, with tough skin. 
Any of above: 15c each, $1.50 doz. 
Blackberry, Cory Thornless 
