2O Re THE AUSTRALIAN GARDENER. 
February, 1910 | 
progress is satisfactory, and to loosen the 
ties 
— Strawberries. — 
Fresh beds for strawberries should be 
prepared during the month, well trenched 
and enriched with manure. Select well 
reoted runners for planting, and if 
insufficisntly provided with these, peg 
down some more to make up the number. 
‘Clean up established strawberry plots 
mulch and water them well, and remove 
all runners that are not required. 
— Raspberries. — 
Now that Raspberries have finished 
fruiting the old canes can be pruned and 
the others severely thinned. Water the 
plants liberaily in dry situations. 
— Grapes. — 
The artificial watering of grape vines 
should te discontinued, but moisture 
should be conserved in the soil as far as 
possible. Everything should be done 
now to hasten the ripening of the fruit. 
The only chance of getting really good 
returns from the table grapes is to put 
them early on the markct, the earlier the 
better. Later on there is the inevitable 
glut, and then good bye to our chances of 
profit. That is the aim and object of the 
present season. Should the season prove 
unsettled, cold and showery, very severe 
thinning must be resorted to. Leaves 
and shoots must be removed to insure 
direct exposure of the fruit. Continue 
in any case to regulate und thin the 
growth which is always in excess of the 
actual requirements of the vine; but take 
care of course to leave sufficient foliage 
to afford protection to the grapes from 
the direct rays of a hot sun. It is almost 
too obvious to state that the warmer and 
dryer the district in which they are 
grown, the more natural protection must 
be afforded. Table grapes will not store 
nor carry a long distance. Where it is 
necessary to keep them any time after 
they leave the vine, they should not be 
placed on shelves like other fruit, but be 
suspended by a string attached to their 
stems from nails in a dry airy room. 
Gather them when quite dry and handle 
them with the utmost care to preserve the 
bloom, Nip out all green and damaged 
berries, and offer the fruit for sale in 
small paper lined hoxes. 
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