The Arizona sentinel., 1899-06-24
FRUIT FOR 4 SMALL PLACE.

to supply him with abundance of food and paying surplus. Besides his chickens. he needs but a small additional meat bill His plan of planting but one acre at first is wise. The trouble with small fruit growing is, as rule, that too much is attemped at the outset and thus poor cultivation soon tends to dis aster and disgust. Even half an acre might better.
 The fruits to begin with rather freely are (D raspberries, (2) cur rants, (3) grapes. Any one who has good sense and industry can manage them, that is not true of strawberries. I shogld begin with very small plat of these, for there IS considerable to learn before you can do much with them. I would lay out a field with grapes in rows 10 or 12 feet apart, and to 10 feet apart in the row. Between them set a row of raspberries or a row of entrants. Gooseberres can wisely take one row. The market for this fruit improving, and the taste of the people for it are quite on the increase.
 For varieties, the very last judg- ment on grapes will be surely modified next season; but this we can say, that no one will make a mistake who plantsfor black Worden and Herbert Worden is so far cur most valuable early or medium early, and Herbert the best late
 They should be planted alternately in the same row, as Herbert does not always pollenjze well, and so fails to fruit fully. Worden is all most copy of Concord in appear ance, but is ripe and sweet as soon as it colors, which is more than can be said of Concord by three weeks. It rlpens about the middle of Sept ember or earlier. Herbert is rerfect about the 1st of October, and is a goed keeping grape. For white grapes, after all our suspicious doubts. Niagara stands foremost, both for it's noble punches, great numbers of them and excellent quality. It is good enough for market and for table when grown on strong soil, and there are few better. l place Diamond next although thereare somequeer things about thls grape, and one of the strangest is that it does not always come in as a very early grape Some years it is ripe before the Niagara; other years quite after
 Hayes is the best in quality, and
 while not rampant grower, I would add 1t to the list. For red grapes would select Brighton Gaertner anC
 Vergennes or Salem, or both. Blu
 these should be grown alternately in the same rows, because Brighton also does not a.ways self-pollenize
 and so proves barren. Do not plan a large list of grapes unless you wisf
 to test for yourself. Below New
 York the Iowa Goethe and Jefferson
 are the finest of grapes. Hert LCIinton, N. VI 1 can ripen then only in warm spots and in long seasons. If, however, you have l porch or veranda for choice grape
 try the Iowa. A few more extri / choice grapes are Colerain. Greer 5 Mountain, Ulster Prolific, WiIdel ? Fl Dorado, Delaware.
 For entrants, do not select cherr, t at all, but Versailles for red, anI
 Fay; and for white, take white grape 1 For gooseberries, Crown Bob an' r WhitemIth and Industry for foreign : and Smiths is a good native. Fo ; raspberries, plant invariably Cuth s bert and golden queen. If yo
 want very early sort, Turner i s best, only it must be grown in hlll: e CutLbert and golden queen gro' 1 best in rows. Of black caps 1 thin |. as good as any well tested are Pal mer and Hilborn, Smiths is l new one of fine promise.
 Ofcourse you want some straw - berries. Set them for the presen under the grapes in the same rows Or if you are skilled to manag
 them well, have a plot entirel. 2 clear, set in rows } or feet apart - Select for sorts Sharpless, Bubach ? Haveriand, Cumberland. Set tn - rows in that order. as SharI ant