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Show BUCK YARDFARMER Interesting Pointers on Gardening Garden-ing for the City Man or Suburbanite. WHAT TO PLANT AND WHEN Advice by an Expert on Agricultural Matter 'How to Plan the Garden For the Chicken Raiser Grow Rhubarb. By PROF. JOHN WILLARD BOLTE. Wo are frequently asked to give suggestions sug-gestions regarding the best way to utilise the ordinary city back yard for gardening purposes. Space does not permit of our answering such a comprehensive com-prehensive Question for each Inquirer and we take thla opportunity to cover tbe subject la detail. Let ua suppose that your back yard ia about 26 feet wide and 80 feet deep. It la fenced In and la pretty aunny i most of the day. There la a back gate and a walk leading from the house to the gate. How ahall we lay out our garden to get the greatest amount of returns in fruit and at the same time secure the most beautiful effect ' In tbe first place, give fruit and vegetables the right of way, using grass and flowers to fill In the odd corners. cor-ners. Most of our fruit bearing shrubs and trees are as beautiful aa any flowering flow-ering shrubs, many of tbe fruits themselves them-selves are highly decorative, and our anticipation of harvest time lends a very tangible interest which is lacking lack-ing in merely decorative planta. Plant a row of dwarf pear trees flat along the south aide of one wall and train tbem In the espalier, vine like, form on a trellis. Use Dwarf Seckle and Dartlett pears. Along tbe wall facing east plant dwarf peaches (Craw-fords (Craw-fords are fine) and train them In the aame way. Plant from four to alx feet apart and allow from four to alx main branches to grow. Dwarf cberriea or dwarf apples may be planted against the other walls, where they will take up very little room, but care must be taken that plants near the north aide of any wall are far enough away to get aome sunshine. sun-shine. A very satisfactory plan for the walk la to cover it with a latticed pergola and train grapea over It Delaware Dela-ware grapes on the shadier side and Concords on tbe sunny. Grapes make a fine screen for any small buildings, ash boxes, etc.. In the yard. A atrawberry bed 10 feet by JO feet ""etqthe pears, and three rowe of Stfreaca ot blackberries, rasp-"berrias rasp-"berrias and currants will fill up tbe half of the garden next to one long side and tbe balance can be devoted to vegetables and flowers. We prefer dwarf fruit trees to the full sized onea because they come Into bearing very early, require much less care, and produce fined fruit In very good quantity. Dwarf peara are very satisfactory. Prune and fertilise) and pray properly and your dwarf fruit trees will bear heavily every year. Hy planting them against the sunny aide of a wall and training like vlnea, the fruit maturea earlier, the trees decorate the wall and tbey take up much lesa room than If planted in the cpen. Tbe amount of edible fruit produced pro-duced will be nearly aa great Try aome dwarf fruit trees yourself this year. |
