Towanda daily review. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1879-1921, 1881-10-01
Planting Small Fruits.

Fall planting Of small fruits is becom-
ing more popular every year, and justly
so. Those who practice it find it advan-
tageous, and now nearly all our planting
and grapevines is done in the Fall. Oc-
tober and November are decidedly the
best months, and October is preferable to
any other month for the following rea-
son: l. There is leisure to do the work
well. 9. The ground is in q condition to
be well and thoroughly prepared. 3. The
roots get good hold of the soil by Win
ter and are therefore ready to start ear
ly and vigorously in the Spring. Fall
set plants make q growth nearly double
that of those planted in the Spring.
Raspbesrrios, currants, grapevines,
etc, should not be taken up for trans
planting until the wood has fully ripened
and the leaves fallen. After planting,
raspberries and blackberries should be
cut back within six inches Of the ground
and grapevines to three buds. A shovel
full of we'll rotted compost should be
placed around the stem and the earth
mounded up over the whole. Currants
and gooseberries after being manured
should also be banked with earth around
their stems. This secures them and pre-
vents heaving by freezing and thawing
weather. .?T.a
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Late as the latter part Of November COW
ering them just aefore freezing weather
with earth drawn over them with the hoe
to the depth of about two inches. The
earth is raked off the plants very early in
Spring, as soon as severe freezing wea-
ther is over for if kept on until late the
plants will rot. Currants and gooSeber-
ries start to grow early in the spring and
some seasons are so backward that the
ground cannot be worked until they are
almost in leaf When planted in Fall
they make much larger growth the first
year than when set under Sucn conditions
though if kept moist there is little danger
Of the plants dying at any time.
1t is well to get land on which it is de-
signed to plant this Fall thoroughly pre-
pared in advance and this season gener-
ally brings the leisure to perform it prop
erly. a cool half shady exposure in
moist land is best adapted for the cur
rant; such soil as can be made to resist
drought by deep plowing and cultivation.
Though moist it should be we'll drained,
and bountifully enriched with such ma
nures as muck, COW manure, ETC., rather
than with stable litter and other light
manures.
The soil for raspberries should also be
deeply plowed and well drained; the best
selection is, perhaps, deep sandy loan,
moist but not wet. The raspberry does
well in partial shade, and cool manures
are preferable to rank unrotted material.
The backcaps succeed on much lighter
soil than is necessary for the red variety,
but also require moisture. The moist
heavy land IN which the raspberry grows
at it's best is quite unsuited.to the black
berry, which in sucn a soil would make a
rank succulent growth of canes that fail
to ripen and mature Sufficiently before
Winter. 1t does best on light soils and
warm exposures, bat the ground should
bedeeply worked and not permitted to
become hard and dry. Neither does it
require. the richness of soil necessary to
the raspberry and the currant.
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