Show TO BEAUTIFY YARD OR LAWN japanese barberry or california privet will soon make compact and ornamental hedge aby W II 11 GRINSTEAD it takes a number of years to get shade trees large enough to add to the beauty of a yard or lawn but this Is not the case with ornamental hedge japanese barberry or california privet will eoon make a compact hedge and there Is nothing which will add more to the baro landscape in this latitude the fall of the year has been found a very satisfactory to set hedges though equal results may 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 a strip two feet wide then set the plants six inches apart in this row it it is to be a single TOW 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 mies or zigzag this will make a more compact hedge than tha eingle row in setting never leave the whole i shrub but cut back to not more than three inches above the ground this ft 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 sq as to make a pyra aldal shape 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 tor the california privet CARING FOR DWARF APPLES new york experiment station ha four orchards in different i parts of the empire state the new york experiment station has four dwarf apple orchards in alt ferent parts of the state three of 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 out whether these advantages i are real in new york the dwarfs do come in bearing somewhat earlier than the standards but the difference is not appreciable fram a financial standpoint instead of the cost ot care being less for the dwarfs it has been found to be considerably more in all of ho 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 true dwarf or halt dwarf as the case may be the loss of trees Is much greater and the trees are shorter lived 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 all only as fillers or barely possibly in the growing of one ortho varieties is and lady which seem to do rather better than other var letle on dark stocks plum raspberry many berry growers report fine pro tits from growing black raspberries rasp berries or black caps as familiarly known this is from northern new york and matures its entire crop in a short period it is an early sort with berries thick and very firm the fruit is large and attractive understand that black aps cannot be set in the fall as are bcd varieties start them in the spring and keep them pinched back freely so canes do not gain ore than tap twp feet in belsha will kaep the buades snug and coo fact and obviate staking |