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Show AMONG SMALL FRUIT BUSHES fter All Danger of "Bleeding" Is Past Grape Vines Should Be Pruned Other Details. (By R. G. WEATHERSTON'E.) With the exception of raspberries, ivhich should be attended to early in the spring, all the small fruit bushes should be pruned, sprayed and fertilized fer-tilized during the late fall months. This will include the gooseberries, currents, cur-rents, blackberries, grape vines, etc. After all danger of "bleeding" is past, the grape vines should be carefully care-fully pruned and all posts and trellises trell-ises straightened up, which will guard against doing this work in the spring at a time it will damage them. Old Btraw or corn stalks make a good fertilizer here and then a goodly per cent, of common wood ashes should be supplied to furnish the desired muriate of potash, which will keep down the too rank growth, thus guarding against fungous diseases and rot and giving the fruit an excellent ex-cellent flavor and good size. All fruit bushes or orchard trees that are where the rabbits can reach them should be wrapped in thick paper, gunny sacks, corn stalks, screen wire or the regular tree protectors protec-tors made of veneer, this protection extending 18 or 24 inches from the ground, so the snows of winter will not enable the animals to gnaw the bark from the trees. Young and tender fruit plants should be carefully bent down to the ground, a quantity of straw placed on them and a few spadefuls of dirt carefully spread over them to protect' pro-tect' them from severe freezing till Bpring, when this straw may be scattered scat-tered around them for fertilizer. |
