The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1874-10-09

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qhe ezt gc cultivation oE sAau
fru.ts for market has undoubtedly prov
ed profitable 70 the pian,ars, ei-e the
markets a. your cities would ROT con-
tiuue to Il supplied, year after year. at
such comparatively low isre- a- nova
days prevail md yet. iatl.e sgrn gar
den we seldom see plantations of small
fruits sufficient TO give the family even
a moderate supply. Too often the lew
bushes or vines obtained are thrust IN
some out-of tl.e-way place 10 take care
Of themselves, spread into thickets, or
degenerate into wildings, and are finally
grubbed and cast ont as rubbish.
From time TO time we have called at
teuJion not only % the pleasure attend
ing wei kept farIn garden, but also TO
lis economy it would seem shat there
wac a vast amount OF missionary work
yet TO be done il this direction before
the average farmer is fully walked up TO
The importance and economy o. this
subject We slalI continue to cgl at
tentiou 10 gardening as an iHHortant
part Of tie farmers art until tho people
shaft be fully walked up TO its vasE1e, and
shall come o. practice what they believe.
Our present purpose is to cali atten-
ton to small frEits.
Its impossible TO have success ia any
thing valuable as food witLout cultiya-
ton: and while this is true Us rule, it
is espesaIly so with berries. They sell
dom have space enough allowed them,
and when this is the case it is impossible
to properly prune them, much less cul-
tivate them. Currants and gooseberries
should never be planted at 4 less distance
than from four to four and q half feet
between the rows, raspberries from five
tc I've and haiF. and blackberries never
less than six feet. If so, the two first
may he planted three feet distant in the
row, the third three and a half feet, and
the latter four feet
CUrrants and gooseberries should be
kept properly tLinned, so that the foil
age may get a due proportion of sun and
air; and rasFberries and bIackberries
should have the old wood taken out each
season and the new growth cut back to
three and Il half or four feet, or be
pinched WHEN the seasons growth has
progressed so far IF to this we add cul-
tivation sufficient to keep the surface
mellow and the weeds killed there is no
reason why fun crop of fruit should
not be gathered every season that is IA
vorable to its maturity; and experience
has demonstrated that there are few that
are not favorable if the early blossoming
sorts are kept back so that the blossom
ing season may not occur during frosty
weather.
As a rule fruits are more easy Of cRl-
tivation than strawberries and fully as
easily gathered as Strawberries, even
when this fruit is well cultivated; that
is, when the plants have been placed
three feet apart between the rows by not
less than twelve inches ia the row and
the runners kept scrupulously cut Else
first class fruit cannot be expected, and
certainly the beds cannot be kept free
Of weeds urleez So treated without more
labor than tie crop Is worth.
To those who have already good gar
6eDs without berries as n DrOruineut fea-
ture therein. We say: Lose no Time IN
setting apart q sufficient portion, or, if
need be, enlarge it for the purpose. If
there are any who have not yet got
ready to have the garden permanently
fixed, we say: DO so at the earliest
practicable moment and make it of size
TO allow ample space for berries West-
erH HUrGi.