Pruning Instructions 

Illustration “°C” 
All roots and tops should be pruned before 
planting. When properly pruned, tree should 
not have more than three or four branches. 
Illustration “C” shows the correct way of 
pruning both roots and tops. 
Fruit trees planted in the Fall need not have 
tops permanently trimmed until the following 
Spring, after danger of hard freezing is past. 
and befere the buds start. 
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Planting 
Grapes 
GRAPES: Dig the hole as big 
as though planting an apple tree. 
Then use the same method as 
when planting a tree. Part of 
the roots and tops should be re- 
moved, as outlind in Illustration 
“D”—cut branches off at line 
marked “top pruning” and roots 
at line marked “root pruning.” 
Iustration “D” 

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Planting 
Blackberries 
and 
Raspberries 
BLACKBERRIES & RASP- 
BERRIES: For field cultivation 
set blackberries 3 ft. apart in 
rows 8 ft. apart. Set raspberries 
3 ft. apart in rows 6 ft. apart. 
For garden culture the plants 
may be more closely spaced. Aft- 
er planting cut branches back to 
within a few inches of the 
ground. (See Illustration “E”’). 


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Illus. “E” 
Planting Rhubarb and Asparagus 
RHUBARB: Plant Rhubarb 3 feet apart in rich garden soil, with the bud or eye one inch be 
low the surface of the soil. 
ASPARAGUS: Set Asparagus 1 foot apart in rich soil. Plant in a furrow nine inches deep. 
Cover with three inches of soil and tramp down. When cultivating work soil at edge of furrow 
toward plants so that by mid-summer the ground is level. 
first or plants will be smothered. 


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Illustration “F” 
STRAWBERRIES: Have ground thoroughly 
pulverized. Plant with a spade. Push spade 
into ground to full depth. Press it to one side, 
insert roots and spread them out fan shape and 
hanging down to their full length. Set plant 
with crown at surface of earth, DO NOT GET 
CROWN COVERED WITH EARTH. (See il- 
lustration “F”’). Remove spade and press earth 
against roots by placing foot on either side of 
plant. Pull some loose soil around plant. Re- 
move all bruised and dry leaves. 
DO NOT cover six inches deep at 
Time for Planting Bulbs 
BULBS—OUT-DOOR CULTURE: Fall is 
the proper time for planting Hyacinths, Cro- 
cuses and Tulips, not in the spring. Let the 
soil be dug to the depth of 18 inches, thoroughly 
pulverized. The best covering is leaves or half 
decayed manure—never rotten manure, as it 
excludes light and air. By excessive covering 
many bulbs are annually lost. Cover with 
leaves or straw from two to four inches, after 
the ground is frozen. As soon as the coldest 
weather is over the covering may be removed. 
When the blooming season is past pinch off all 
the flower stems allowing the bulbs to remain 
until the leaves are yellow. If the beds are 
wanted for bedding plants, take up the bulbs 
and replant them very thickly in any vacant 
spot, allowing them to remain until the foliage 
is decayed; then place each one in sand, put- 
ting them away until fall planting. 
