Show why not grow small fruits for your own use F P F rockwell Ro cLwell horticultural 1 editor of farm and fires do de what makes a more mole delicious des sert sent during the hot midsummer mid summer days than ft a dodi dish of raspberries rasp berries wih mot cool cream OR on them or for something a bit heartier blackberry pudding padding with hard bard sauce good sai paul pard ill tell the world ad they are and you dont need a farm to grow these good things on on the contrary the space required to produce all the raspberries and black berries bemes that the average family can use is very little A bed a few feet w ide along a fence or one edge of the garden will produce dozens of quarts quart I 1 a year if given a little care raspberries Rasp berries and blackberries dont demand a whole lot of attention to produce generous crops they will in fact goon bearing ear car after year even if absolutely neglected THU the SECRET OP OF SUCCESS WITH CANE FRUITS but to hive have really good fruit and lots of f it t this us is one thing that you has must d do 0 that is cut the old canes t down to th the a ground after the bear mg ing season I 1 ahia hi is easily done and it gives the new gnon th room to de celop the weaker no new growths should be cut out too so thit that tin bed e will n not her become crowded most of ill the con cane fruits succor or I 1 throw ill w up new p plants ant freely so when the he I 1 plants lants are arc set out they are ann usually put two to lothree to three feet apart lu in the rows and the rows nade made about six feet apart all of the coca cane fruits make rapid growth and in I 1 two 0 or three years yean after planting should bield 3 beld a full crop when the plants are am set out it is well uell to use a of forkful fork fuls of well meted manure manum or two or three handfuls of bone meal thom tl ioro mixed with the wil boil where lace plant ii to be set at the time of planting the old canes should be outa cut back it to wit within bin a few inches of the ground so that vi orous new canes will be produced to bear next years crop SUMMER PROM SET THIS SPRING but it it is not hot necessary to wait even one year to get some fruit find if you get enough plants to set them every eighteen inches apart and leave every other plant without ut cutting bick back the canes the plants that us are not cut back will bear some amit this summer sommer it is still better however to get some plants of the new overbearing corb ng variety such as st regis Regi RaZ re lafrance and erskine park all of these raspberries rasp berries differ from the older sort sorts in that they bear fruit on wood of the p present resent seasons growth they are am not an expert ment as they haw have been long enough to prove their worth all over the country ripe red raspberries rasp berries up until autumn or some of the older betic Aane ties s art arc xing king early cola columbian m blan anid t did season and cumberland a blak black cap i anet et blackberries WILL ADD TO BERRY SEASON ill III ALdi addition tion to the raspberries rasp mp berries you al 11 ill want vant a few feu dozen doten plants of blackberries these ate ale even aen more mom h hardy and 1 dyr vigina vigorous ms in growth then t the rasp p berries they require dimill similar r treatment b but u I 1 need more mom riom aim four to six silt feet apart each way where space is a limited the C cincic ties may be I 1 trained mined up against a 8 fence or building or posts with stout wires may be used to support them eldorado sni snider der and Mers ceran are threw three excellent vanc varieties ties but there are many other good sorts sons the dewberries dew berries buries are am similar to blackberries but fant it earlier her and it for that reason are am doubly desirable b A wil ul cost 11 ant litile rod and det deman ranol verv eifle ie time in cring r hai for them and ed on any ordinarily nj good soil old will beld an abunda abundance nue of their del delicious delicio it js fruits for home use I 1 |