Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-06-20

not SO ready TO neglect their work as men
are. Added to this, they have 'knack''
which gives them success. A sklllful
gardener once said that woman with 8
cracked teapot could root cuttings that an
experienced propagation with all his mod
ern appliances would fail with. 1t is not
hard work, nor the ability to do hard work
that makes fruit-growing successful; it is
the heart work the real interest, the care
fitness and faithfulness and good Iudg-
ment that are put into the enterprise.
Lack of knowledge is no obstacle, for
this can be acquired easily and quickly.
There are 10 secrets in frHit-groWing
Those engaged in it are always ready to
communicate their knowledge, and every
horticultural society is engaged in dissem-
mating Information. In our time there are
many educated women more wretched and
anxious than the poorest peasant girl that
has accepted the duties of her lot, and has
learned how to fulfill them. The country
is overstocked with teachers. The prospect
of standing behind counter all day, often
IN miserable health, for mere pittance, is
the best that life offers many of them.
There are women, too, with little capital,
who waste it in trying to make artists or
musicians of themselves, forgetting that
the lessons of Murillo or Gounod would
not supply the place of talent To these
Mr.. Grawford's suggestions ought to be val
liable. He adds the following practical
hints TO beginners:
First post up on the work. Study your
facilities, your land, capital, nearness to
market and ability TO obtain needed help.
Secure the control of some good land. 1t
costs as much to prepare and cultivate
poor land as rich, and the profits are little
will make some mistakes, and will have
much to learn, If you do everything well,
and at the right time. you cannot attend to
much at first. Plant but few varieties, and
only such as generally succeed. You can
well afford to do without those new kinds
that are destined to supersede all others"
Be more practical than theoretical Be
more ready to believe what you see than
what you hear. Take some good horticult-
ural papers and read them attentively.
Join horticultural society if there is one
within your reach. Do your work we'll
Both profit and satisfaction come from
little well done, rather than q large
plantation grown in Il slip-shod manner
Sell no poor berries. They will injure
your credit more than they are worth.
Use them, or give them to those who have
none and cannot afford to buy Keep
your plants growing during the growing
season. lnlure no roots in cultivating
Plants make their own repairs but they
should be better employed The force ex-
pended in healing broken root might be
more probably used in building up the
plant or storing away nourishment for the
next crop of fruit All the berry plants do
best on, land that is rich, moist-not wet
and cool Without richness there is nothing
to make fruit of Without moisture to dis
solve the food in the soil it is unavailable,
for all plant food is taken up in solution
Without comparatively cool soil the
plants cannot remain healthy. Each plant
should have plenty of room. and no other
roots should he allowed to rob it of food
and moisture. The surface of the soil must
be kept loose by stirring or mulching, so as
to admit air to the roots, for they cannot
live without it. As plant can make its
wants known only by signs, he who best
understands these signs, and is most faith
full in supplying the wants expressed by
them, will succeed best.-[New York Free
mans Journal