. Elementary principles of agriculture; a text book for the common schools. opular as the finequality of their fruit would suggest. The raspberries areconfined largely to the north central and eastern are not hardy in the extreme North or very fruitfulin the South and West. 531. Gooseberries and Currants are low growinghardy shrubs. They are more successful in the northcentral and eastern states and are not generally grown 360 Elementary Principles of Agriculture in the South. They are highly esteemed for their acidberries, which are gathered green and used for makingjeUies or cann
. Elementary principles of agriculture; a text book for the common schools. opular as the finequality of their fruit would suggest. The raspberries areconfined largely to the north central and eastern are not hardy in the extreme North or very fruitfulin the South and West. 531. Gooseberries and Currants are low growinghardy shrubs. They are more successful in the northcentral and eastern states and are not generally grown 360 Elementary Principles of Agriculture in the South. They are highly esteemed for their acidberries, which are gathered green and used for makingjeUies or canned and used for pies and sauces as wanted. Gooseberries are veryfruitful in the morenorthern states andCanada. 532. Grapes areusually trellised, as in-dicated in f the exception ofthe European grapesso generally grown inCalifornia, the varie-ties of grapes largelycultivated in Americahave been producedfrom the severalnative species, mostlyduring the last halfcentury. The Euro-pean varieties are notresistant to thephyloxera, a small in-sect that attacks Fig. 227. Grape vines will bear an abundanceof fruit but they must be sprayed to preventblack rot and other fungi. Top, from un-sprayed vines; bottom, from sprayed Mr. Will B. Munson. 533. Grapes are easy to grow and succeed in mostany climate, provided the proper attention be given tospraying to prevent damage from the several speciesof fungi, such as black rot (Fig. 92), downy mildew(Fig. 90), powdery mildew and anthracnose. Thepreventative is to spray with Bordeaux mixture, 5-5-50,at frequent intervals until near the ripening period. Small Fruits and Orchard Fruits 361 For the later sprayings ammoniacal copper sulfate isused. Infection usually takes place with each rain,hence the idea is to always have the leaves, vines, andyoung fruits coated with the Bordeaux mixture. The fre-quency of the spraying will therefore depend upon the rains. ORCHARD FRUITS 534. In Locating Orchards consideration
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