. Popular gardening and fruit growing; An illustrated periodical devoted to horticulture in all its branches. t the cause of thismiss was, I am unable to tell. Since then I have done but little ofthat kind of training. When for fruitand not plants, to let each plant makeabout six runners or new plants,trained along so as not to have therows more than a foot broad, willmost likely make the best crop of niceberries. My impression is that thebiggest berries are always grown onplants that have set themselves. Very dry, hot summers as the past,are severe on these plants. Only thosethat I watered fr
. Popular gardening and fruit growing; An illustrated periodical devoted to horticulture in all its branches. t the cause of thismiss was, I am unable to tell. Since then I have done but little ofthat kind of training. When for fruitand not plants, to let each plant makeabout six runners or new plants,trained along so as not to have therows more than a foot broad, willmost likely make the best crop of niceberries. My impression is that thebiggest berries are always grown onplants that have set themselves. Very dry, hot summers as the past,are severe on these plants. Only thosethat I watered freely and kept con-stantly cultivated, look all right,while the main bed which could notreceive such attention, may not beworth leaving stand next spring. Butas a Strawberry grower told me once,that the crab grass took possession oftwo acres of his berry patch, so thathe mowed it and made two tons of hayto the acre, intending to plow theplantation under in the spring, butwhen spring came he noticed plentyof plants there and concluded to let ~ it run. They came out lively, and he second-crop bartlett ONE-HALF SIZE. sold six hundred dollars worth of Straw-berries off those two acres that season. That was at Memphis, Tenn, and I knowthat man would not make a I will leave mine at least till next spring. The crab grass was mowed off mine re-cently, but it is laid aside to cover themwhen winter sets in. The End of the Season. Soon now allthe gardeners crops will be gathered andthe outside plants that need protection mustbe attended to, and as many neglect late, it will not be amiss to give them areminder. When mice and rabbits arepresent, newly set out trees and shrubs willneed attention, not only newly planted,but all small trees will need it. Againstmice there is no better plan than to clearaway all weeds and grass around them (butthere should not), then bank up a mound ina conical shape, six inches high. For rabbits, wrapping the trunks twoor thre
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