Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1886-05-29
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Advantages Of Planting a Few Fruit Trees
or Bushes Every Year.

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or Bushes Every Year.
The wisest way appears to De- 70.
| plant a few fruit trees on COMMENCING
to improve a place, and to continue to
| plant few more every year. Nemaf
hone that the, will live long and be
productive for several generations, hHt
We NAV naturally expect that they Will
not reach an advanced age or produce
many crops. If a hundred apple, pear
or cherry trees be planted during the
same wear they will all be Likely to
come into bearing at about the same
| time. and To exhibit signs of disease
| and death q few years afterward. by
planting from ten t. twenty trees each
wear, some will be producing fruit
while Others are coming into the c1n-
dition for bearing, while still Others
vii. nr giving evidence that they are
ready to rcplenish the wood pile. ~
adopting the plan of setting one row ot
| tree, in an orchard each year, and 10y
| commencing to sci them on the Sider\-
posed to the prevailing winds, the trees
| first planted will afford considerable
protection to those that have recently
| been set out. There are other adytn-
tages in planting a few fruit trees every
wear instead Of an entire orchard at the
same time. What are considered the
most hardy, most productive and most
excellent varieties this year will not be
so considered ten years from now,
New varieties Of fruit are constantly
being produced, and the best that are
planted one year may not be the best
even when they produce their frst
crop, BY that time We may reasonably
hope that some varieties of pear and
apple may be produced more hardy
and productive than any We have At
present. Still, if all the land Il farmc'
desires to devote to orchard purpose
be occupied by fruit trees he will heSl
tate about setting out any more. III
will continue to use inferior fruit Will
his neighbors are enjoying some that !
vastly superior.
As with large fruits, so with small
fruits, the best plan is to plant "eari,
and often" Currant, gooSebcrry an'
raspberry bushes produce the fines
fruit and generally thu largest crop
when they are comparatively young
The old wood is likely to become dis
rased and subject TO dscdf. 1t Is oitei
puncturcd by ba:ers and becomes :
brittle that The stalks and branches ar
broken by the wind, an accumulate
Of ice, or the weight Of fruit. Ne'
Hood. however. is strong, and no
likely to be broken by any of thcs
causes. After any Of these bushes ar
three years old they will afford cut
ting, or rooted slips, and the best q
them should be taken off and plante
each ycar. As one row j. declining !
productivpnc,, another will be in it
prime, and a third approaching tn
condition of bearing. The method {
~propagating all these bushes is yer
easy and simple. The time required t
set out a new row each spring is Yer
, small. The work can be done durin
DAYS when it is too wet to attend to OF
, binary field operations or when tn
teams are resting and eating. 1t dot
not take longto remove twenty cutting
, and place them in the ground 50 tn;
, they will throw out roots. The sccon
: wear they will contain several stalk.
and the third they will produce son
a fruit that will be of excellent qualit,
1t is easy to cultivate the ground b.
tween young berry bushes, but MOI
= difficult to do the work after they b
+ come old, The same rule applies
+ strawberries as 70 berry bushes. A fe
F., choice plants should be raised eac
! year. They should be transplant,
, in the fall or early the next spring,
: kept free from blossoms and runner
= and cultivated with Il view Of raisil
+ superior fruit the following seaso
y Strawberries an ordinary family W.
consume Chicdg0 Times.