Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-03-24
for two to three years, and allowed to

for two to three years, and allowed to
ramble at will over the fence, will
give great amount of fruit. Such
fence corners can also be planted
with black raspberries, peach, plum,
and cherry trees, where stock does
not run. And if mulched a little
each year they will do finely. A com
mon post and board or picket fence
makes a good trelis for the grape.
Currents and black raspberries do
better than most anywhere else if
planted against the north side of a
tight board fence or wall, if cared
for.
All little ravines, rivulats, and
gulches should have their sides and
bottoms planted with blackberries,
our best native plums, gooseberries,
grape vines, etc. These will prevent
their washing out deep, and their
shade will protect the water, If any,
and make it more permanent and
also give great deal of fruit. If the
birds get all of this, they wont come
after that near the house so badly.
We have seen large and fine crops of
grapes growing year after year on
vines planted on the north SIDE OF an
old and large Usage orange hedge,
without any care whatever. We have
seen grape vine in door-yard COW
erlpg four or five quite large shade
trees, making very picturesque OBJ
iect, grateful shade, and producing an
abundance of fruit. Some of the
most beautiful objects in our western
scenery are trees covered thlckly
with native wild grape vines, espe-
c,ally our thorn bushes (crat@gus).
Our ha dy cultivated vines would be
equally fine. 1t is wonderful how
much space can be covered by Con,
cord vine if its roots have sufficien-
cy of proper food.
We have seel few black raspber-
RES planted along a picket fence,
supply family witt. a plenty of this
fruit, for twenty-five years.
The steep north hill~sides Of ra-
vines, may ne planted with our wild
red raspbarries, especially the Tur>
ner, and with very little care give
an abundance of fruit Tnis deli
cious native raspberry (Ruhus strigo-
-us) is especially adapted TO steep
north hill~s,des, where it escape
many Of the ills it is subject to south
Of its native habitat, and it is fact
worthy of consideration, that we in
this land of entirely too much suns
shine-snd very hot sunshinP-are
too prone to pant all our fruits on
south hill-sides In this, patterning
after the Germans, who in their cold
summer climate are forced to plant
the grape from sunny, dry, bot Pail
ss inc on such h,ll-sides to have it
mature fruit. Our north bill-sides,
or hills facing the north, are very
much better for every fruit we grow
(with the probable exception of the
pesct) than southern exposures, both
in summer and winter. A plant on q
| NIL f4clpg southwark has, as it we're,
to pass through twenty winters to the
one of plant on a northern expos
ure,. simply for the reason that It. is
continually thawing and freezing.
Il is IS cold at night, and too warm
during the day; its roots are pulled
out and killed by the frost, aud it is
forced TO early starting in the spring,
etc, while the one on a northern ex.
posure IS frozen up aud lett compare
lively dormant until spring, and if
any snow falls it stays there to pro-
tect it. Prairie Farmer.