The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-02-24

ADD he'd and White Dutch, White
Grape, Long punched Holland and Vic
toria. Gooseberries-American Cluster,
Smiths, Downing, Houghton, and, if
you want the best novelty, Industry.
Red Raspberries that sucker little or none
-Shafer, Purple Cane and Philadelphia;
those that run all over the lot and crawl
under the fence Turner and Cuthbert;
but it will pay to keep down the suckers
and give winter protection to Cuthbert.
Black Raspberries-.Tyler and Gregg.
Observation-Disclosures. Blackberries--
Snyder for early; Stones Hardy and
Briton for late.
Strawberries come after these other
fruits in the garden. although the strips
between might be thus utilized, but put
your strawberries where you can pillow
them under when they do not give at thu
rate of fifty bushels per acre, and where,
if insects trouble, you can NOW them as
soon as picking is over. and burn them
when there is good breeze. The past
dry season many old beds paid better
than new. We usually pillow under after
the second crop and set to cabbage OF
SOW turnips. Strawberries are perfect
and pistillate in the blossom. Plant one
or two rows of the perfect boomers, and
right beside the same number of pistillate
plants, for when properly pollenixed
they are the greatest bearers. Ifyou
do not care to keep the kinds separate
so you can set new beds it will give per.
haps better results to set every other
plant of pistillates. The great cause oil
so many failures in taking plants from
old beds is, the pistillates outgrow the
others, and if you set all these you gel
no fruit. Now if you set so many feet
of one kinds and set it down in 4 book
you can 60 to that row and get the same
kind if you wish to plant again. If you
want the biggest berries and biggest
yield set you plants two feet by one foot
and keep off all runners. II you wan,
the most bushels for the time spent and
plants, set plants four feet by two feel
and train in matted rows. The hes,
kinds perfect in blossom are Jessie
Wilson, Parry, May King, Miner and
Ontario; of pistillates, Bubach, Crescent
Manchester and Jewell. Get your
ground ready just as early in spring az
possible, then 60 to the nursery and gel
your plants or order them shipped tc
come at just this time. If the roots are
long, trim them and cut off all but the
two center leaves of the plants, dip the
roots in puddle of mud, and keep from
sun and wind in planting. Use spade
to make the hole, and if the ground is
dry, so the fine dirt fills up, invert one
spade.full where each plant is to stand
press firm about the roots. Do not sci
a strawberry plant below the crown
other fruits are better set deeper. Il
the season is late and no rains, the best
way to water is by sinking quart tin
can (punctured in side and bottom Just
so the water will ooze QUIT beside each
plant, or occasionally in the bed to keep
them filled with water. One strawberry
plant set even in blossom in spring is
worth dozen set in August and Sep.
TENDER. Your fruit garden ought to be
all planted imm ediately ON receipt oil
the plants before corn planting, and
after planting you want to cultivate and
hoe that garden every Monday morning
just as sure as yo,w wife aUoshes, till Sep.
TENDER LIST. Cultivate shallow and hoe
with garden rake just as the weeds
peep. In September cut out all the
weak and puny plants with a knife
mulch the paths with well-rotted manure
and in November, when the ground first
freezes one inch, cover the whole bed
with marsh hay or cut corn stalks, just
so you can't see the leaves. Dig about
the blackberry plants with fork and
tip them over all one way and cover
with earth; also the raspberries. Cover
the dewberries with well-rotted manure
no grass or clover seed in it. Prune of
three-fourths of all new grape wood and
cover with earth; if there were no mice
marsh hay would answer. Don't use
any mulch or manure that has grass
clover or weed seed for the garden.
If you have no strawberry bed you
can grow enough fruit from spring sci
plants to pay cost of plants and tending
the first season, but it is much better
for the bed to pick off all fruit stems as
soon as they appear for the first season
giving all the strength to the new bed.
WINTER PROTECTION
Is no great job. Five minutes will cove,
blackberry bush that will give four te
eight quarts of nice fruit, and, wher
protected, no fruit is surer. In the
spring, as soon as frost is out, lift the
bushes and vines to an upright position
and press the earth firm about them
If you want to do the nice thing by
them, stretch a wire q feet over thu
row and tie them up; level down the
earth used in covering, mulch thorough
ly about all plants to keep the weeds
down, or cultivate and hoe as the sea
son previous, except the strawberry bed
which let alone, unless occasionally &
place needs opening little to let up tn.
plants. If weeds appear before picking
hand-pull them. Now if the season j!
favorable you may reasonably expec
from $50 to 500 quarts of fruit from
every $50 strawberry plants set the yea
before. The other fruit plants will jus
begin to bear, and will improve from
year to year, while often the first straw
berry crop is the best; therefore set s
few strawberries each year. If you are
sure you will neglect the beds, set 9
strawberry plant in each space between
your hills of early potatoes and wher
your potatoes are dug you will have q
good show for strawberry bed and be
encouraged to keep up the hoeing.
Now if you don't believe this will pay
just give your wife the money to buy
the plants, you get the ground ready,
and engage to pay the wife and children
10 cents quart for all the nice fruit
they will raise from that one acre. ]
just dare you to do it.
Good land, we'll fenced, long rows
good plants, true to name (not bought
Of some worthless tramp or chain gang
nursery, we'll tended, properly thinned
and mulched in November, and you will
meet with the success your labor de.
serves.
Now, you men Of muscle, prepare the
ground, and you women of pluck and
perseverance give the lords no rest till
you get the money or the plants, and
grow fruit enough to make the house.
hold happy three times every day in the