The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1885-03-14

It can occupy the same ground longer,
The same vinss will produce we'll 10
eight or ten Year,. The Crystal City
throws ont runners freely and the bed
needs renewing ottener than does the
bed Of the Sharplcss. When people
called for plants it Was usually for Cry
stall City and Sharpless, sometimes for
Wilson's Albany.
1t is said by good authority that
plants give an increase from ten to
tS,n y-f'ld, and that is about correct.
Give good care and you will get twenty
toa plant ffyou buy ii thousand plants
You will have twenty thousand by fall,
and if you buy five hundred YOU will
have ten thousand, and henc forth and
forever al you want Of these varieties
for your own use aud soon some for
your neighbors, and then you can b..
GIN to realize some profit for your labor,
some reward, and We do get tired if We
"ow and fail to reap, and in truth We
ought to grow weary.
If We find in any undertaking that
We are likely to reap no profit, TINT our
labor il i'll vain, the very best thing ~
can do Is to turn in SOME other direc
ion; but if we follow the culture Of
small fruit, honestly and earnestly, W.
shall reap abundantly, for it pays, and
pays richly, aud some varieties make a
very quick return, as much so IN is pus.
'iole Tor them to d.. transplanted
some Wilson's Albany in the spring of
1853, which were full of bloom bu H.
and wanted to know if they would
bloom after being disturbed. They were
layer plants, and all the soil was .hak II
rom the roots, and left the bud. and
t'ey blossomed out we'll, and produced
small CT p OF very Eice berries. Aid
hen, in 1884, they were very full of
large fruit. A. NJ. Purly says that it is
'ery dlfficnlt now to get pure Wilson's
that. they are mostly mixed with
uthsr and inferior sorts. | do not knew
have no means Of knowing, if NINE are
what he would call pure and unmixed,
hut i think they are, for they are al
alike and very fine. The Wilson throws
ont great many tendrils, and the b. d
has to he often renewed, set with, new
plants, for sometimes the v,nes, will
b ar =" pr"fusely as to exhaust them.
Ives in oms season.
Sometime people have realized ne,
Prohl OF one thousand dollars, from one
acre Of ground set with Wilson's AL
'"ny, and then they plowed them
under for they we're exhausted. Bu,
When one realizes 80 much, everlih ~
is favorable; the season is q IN ID FL SEA
son, and the market is paying mar
ket, thongh the season can b, maze all
that is desired by Watering the plants
i viii { they are in bloom and frui,ing.
lfyou have but small! garden bed you
can water by hand, but If you have al,
acre or two, you will have to secure IL
movable tank, or hose, and water b.,
A horse power.
t I'VE cannot water so much" some
j one says. Yes you can. Men have been
o KNOWN to water their meadows, which
|. covered more ground than your plant,
IL do or will. But they did not carry wu
o ter in their hands; they had proper mp
~ pliances. If the season is dry, You los
l. your crop without water, and it is hes
t. to water at the root, instead Of sprink
h. ling. II is possible to sprinkle, withou
Of jnrv to the bloom or young fruit, bu
&c suitable means for watering, and car,
if are required if You dc sprinkle, and
e, is best 10 water at the root IF the plan
ID after the bloom is set. Make Il dent i
e, the soil at the root and pour in the WI
" ter and let the plants take it up, for til
Du probabilities are that the dew is all tina
at should touch the bloom unless it shout
rain. At no other time than when tram
It's planting or during blooming and frui
r. ing seasons, do they need water, for the
RI will endure mucn from dry weather :
-, any other time.