Show 0 BEAUTIFY YARD OR LAWI japanese barberry or california arivel will soon make compact and ornamental hedge by W II 11 GRINSTEAD it takes a number 0 years to gel shade trees large enough to add to the of a yard or lawn but this la not the case with ornamental hedge japanese barberry or california privet will soon make a compact hedge and there Is nothing which will add more to the bare landscape in this latitude the fall of the year has been found a very satisfactory time to set hedges though equal results day be had from spring planting there Is one very important thing that should be looked after when the plants are set and that Is the pruning the ground should be prepared by plowing and heavily with well rotted manure strip two feet wide then set the plants six inches apart in this row if it Is to be a single row hedge if it is to be a double row hedge set the plants eight inches apart in rows the same width so that the plants will miss or zig zag this will make a more compact hedge than the tingle row in setting never leave the whole shrub but cut back to not more than three inches above the ground this will cause it to branch at the ground and form a compact growth which can be pruned into shape the following winter and shortened up during the growing season so as to make a pyramidal shapo when a shoot Is noticed running up too high it should be pinched off which will make it throw out branches at the bottom near the ground these hedges when properly cared for after being put out right will turn a dog or cat so compact and dense will be the growth this plan of treatment Is more especially for the california privet CARING FOR DWARF APPLES new york experiment station ha four orchards in different parts of the empire state the new york experiment station has tour dwarf apple orchards in alt ferent parts of the state three ol 01 which were planted to test the claims made for dwarf apples these are that dwarf trees come in bearing earlier than standards that orchard operations are more easily performed and that the fruit Is of higher color and better quality from dwarf trees the three orchards have been planted five years giving ample opportunity to find whether these advantages are real in new yorla the dwarfs do come in bearing somewhat earlier than the standards but the difference Is not appreciable from a financial standpoint instead of the cost of care being less for the dwarfs it has been found to be considerably more in all of the orchards and the most of dwarf trees Is greater there Is no difference in color size or flavor between the trees on dwarf and stand ard stocks in these orchards apple picker used on fruit farm vantages of the dwarfs are that it Is difficult to get trees on stocks known to be arne dwarf or halt dwarf as the case may be the loss of trees Is much greater and the trees are shorter aved from the orchards in charge of the station there seems to be no future for dwarf trees in commercial in athla state or it at alii only as fillers or barely possibly in the growing of one or two varieties as and lady which beem to do rather better than other varlet lei on dark stocks plum raspberry many berry growers report fine profits from growing black raspberries rasp berries or black caps as familiarly known this variety Is from northern new york and matures its entire crop in a short period it Is an early aart with berries thick and very firm the fruit Is jarge and attractive readers understand that black aps cannot be beet in tho fall as are varieties start them in the spring and keep them pinched back freely so young canes do not gain ligore than two feet in height will keep the snug and contract and obviate staking |