The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-10-03
FRUIT NOTES.

To secure the very best fruit it is best
to renew the strawberry bed every other
year.
The Loudon and older raspberries are
the best new varieties introduced in
years.
Every farmer would find it to his ad-
vantage to have some definite knowledge
of the subject of grating.
Fruit is natures medicine. 1t is a
healthy tonic. Doctors get poor as or
chards and berry fields increase.
Trees and small fruits generally like
application of ashes and bone dust. By
fertilizing literally, good crops may be
assured.
Experienced fruit growers buy but few
varieties of trees and vines. but the new
beginners buy everything they hear
about.
If New England people had planted
hickorynutS in place of elms that cOun-
try would never have been good place
to emigrate from.
Currants and gooseberries thrive in al
most any soil and will stand consider
able rough treatment and yet yield fair
crops of fruit.
1t is often the case that too much top
and too many branches draw from the
soil nOurishment that could be used with
fewer branches
In a commercial orchard of two hun
dred trees it is better to have forty
trees, each of five varieties, than five.
trees each Of forty varieties.
One of the most important items in
managing a fruit farm, and especially
small fruits. is to prepare the soil thor
oughly before planting.
Raspberries produce good crops in the
same soil Tor years, while strawberries
produce their best crops th6 first year
they come into full bearing.
Gropes grown in a elayey soil are
darker and more glossy than when grown
on graYelly land; but the sweetest and
richest tasted grapes are grown on grav
ely soil.
1t is only in exceptional cases that it
can be considered a good plan to fill an
old orchard with young trees. In ma
jOrity of cases the soil is exhausted by
the former growth.
The removing of the old canes ny the
thrifty growing plants is about all of
the Druing needed with currantS and Il
serves TO keep the plants in a good
shape and in. d good fruiting condition
generally.
1t is the experience of many growers
that fresh animal manures make strong
vines but not much fruit, while it tends
to induce rot and m3ldew, While potash
and superphOsphates produce quite the
opposite effect.
No plant or tree. is fit for setting out
unless it has made normal. healthy
growth. Neither extreme is desirable.
One of the best ways of managing rasp-
berries is to set in rows seven feet apart,
and the plants two feet apart in the
rows.
1t is a mistake that nuts must be
planted where the trees are to grow.
They are very successfully transplanted.
There are said to be from a dozen
to twenty varieties of American chest
nuts, some of them three times as large
as others.
The so-caHed dewberry is the trailing
blackberry. and an excellent fruit. It's
culture differs in no way from that of the
common blackberry. The best, indeed the
only variety in cultivation is the Lucre-
tia. This fruit is a softer and more pulpy
berry than the high bush kind. The
plants bear the first year after the plant
ing. They may be set out late in the
summer or early in the spring.
One Of the finest apples grown is the
favored abroad was shown recently when
this variety was quoted in England at
45 shillings per barrel, while Baldwins
were quoted at % shillings. AS to the
Ben Davis, it is not to be compared with
the various varieties Of pippins the
Spitzenburg or the Baldwin; its main
drawback IS that it is pulpy and favored
on the order of a. turnip. The blue peara-
min is too weak in the stem for a coun-
try liable to much wind.-Irrigation Age.