| Show O ON EW are many renson why hy persons n nho ho start In farming should commence with berr berry and vines rather than wIth trees If theIr object be the sup supplying up plying ot of table with lIh fruit Strawberry plants come Into bearing olle year ear are an sol set out while and blackberry will produce good crops ro e In two tO years e r rum the lime they are planted they receive suit suitable able The costs ot of of gropes cur currants currants rants anti Is very small they can be I nt the tue malls mails at al rates hl are ouI rooted I cutting them In suitable lengths and a Setting them In a trench tha that can b be mode made by simply forcing a tlde Into the hl koil which b be crowde crowded clore to them with the toot foot In It Is ii best besl to give them n shade Thi This may be done ly by oceans of a a ten fence board fastened to supports on the louth or Ot enet sIde ot of the rOl row Th The board about two to Inches tram from the gound ground and tour four Inches from the cut cuttings tings It If the sli soil Is rich I is kept tree free from weeds eeds and grass graPH and Is covered with mulch the rooted cuttings can be the following year er cut tinge obtained In the tho tall fall ma may be kept over ocr the winter by placing them In the c cellar lar or b by burying them In the grund ground deep enough to protect them tram from the trot frost The email mal truls fruits ore are adapted to a greater geater variety of sol soils and climates then tte the large fruits Strawberries sue ce In every schol school distrct district In the Union and there Is scarcely and place between the Atlantic and Pacific where ne each and blackberries do not grow row wid wild and where their cultivation Is not at attended tended wih with Ti Till the canning proM process was oa Invented and general generally In traduced small fruits were of COI 1 little lite value They The decayed I so quickly ater after they became ripe that I it was Ivas necessary to eat cat theta them immediately Immediate or to prel preserve them b by drying Iut But b by means mean of at the canning process the they cnn can now flow be pre red any ony of time without having their flavor essentially Unpaired Impaired The cost of at preserving them themla themis la is slight IS as the same cane can b be used for tor man many years eau Wih With halt an acre In bas grapes rod and black currant currants gooseberries strawberries ro l and II a fatally can hay have fresh or preserved fruit on the table every c da day In tin the Welch In American Agriculturist |
