. Manual of gardening; a practical guide to the making of home grounds and the growing of flowers, fruits, and vegetables for home use . mpossible to secure fruits from one or two isolatedapricot trees, because the curculios will take them all. It is possible,also, that some of the varieties need cross-pollination. Among the best kinds of apricots are Montgamet, Jackson, Royal,St. Ambroise, Early Golden, Harris, Roman (Fig. 274) and the East, apricots are commonly worked on plums, but they alsothrive on the peach. The introduction of the Russian varieties, a few years ago, added to
. Manual of gardening; a practical guide to the making of home grounds and the growing of flowers, fruits, and vegetables for home use . mpossible to secure fruits from one or two isolatedapricot trees, because the curculios will take them all. It is possible,also, that some of the varieties need cross-pollination. Among the best kinds of apricots are Montgamet, Jackson, Royal,St. Ambroise, Early Golden, Harris, Roman (Fig. 274) and the East, apricots are commonly worked on plums, but they alsothrive on the peach. The introduction of the Russian varieties, a few years ago, added to * The varieties marked with an asterisk (*) are particularly valuable formarket purposes as well as for home use; the others are chiefly desirable forhome use. THE GROWING OF THE FRUIT PLANTS 421 the list several desirable kinds that have proved hardier and a littlelater in blooming than the old kinds. The fruits of the Russian va-rieties, while not as large as the other varieties, fully equal many ofthem in flavor, and they are very productive. They bear more pro-fusely and with less care than the old-fashioned and larger 274. Roman Apricot. Blackberry. — In a general way, the planting and care of a black-berry plantation is the same as required by raspberries. From thefact that they ripen later in the season, when droughts are most com-mon, even greater attention should be given to placing them in land thatis retentive of moisture, and to providing an efficient mulch, whichcan generally best be secured with a cultivator. The smaller-growingkinds (as Early Harvest and Wilson) may be planted 4 x 7 ft., the rank-growing varieties (as Snyder) 6 x 8 ft. Thorough cultivation through-out the season will help in a material degree to hold the moisture neces-sary to perfect a good crop. The soil should be cultivated very shallow,however, so as not to disturb the roots, as the breaking of the rootsstarts a large number of suckers that have to be cut out and destroyed. 422 MAN
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