The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-03-11
By r. F. Rockwell,
Author of Around the Year in the Garden and Making a Garden
 of Small Fruits" etc.

Ol NAlEtil \ FulLS, etc.
 Surprisingly few people have a con ceptton of the amount of fruit that can be procured from small plant ings. Why. for instance, buy straw berries at twenty-five cents a quart when the amount you pay out for this delicious fruit in a couple or weeks would supply you with plants enough to set out bed that would not only supply your table during the strawberry season, but give you fruit to preserve? To say nothing of giving you a second crop in the fall months up until the time snow flies
 Just as big a. saving can be made on raspberries. bIackberries and sim iSr things. Have you ever eaten Loganberry jam-the most delicious spread on bread that ever came down the pike Possibly you do not re- alize that you can grow this delicious berry in quantity on your own place instead of buying fruit grown in Cal ifornia and shipped three thousand miles. The Loganberry is practical ly new fruit, obtained by hybridiz- ing blacl5berries and raspberries. It possesses the dark red color. texture and flavor of the raspberry and the size of the biggest blackberry. And speaking of raspberries, are you aware of the fact that the new va riety known as St. Regis or Raniere Is Evcrbeuring, and will give you fruit this season from plants set out this spring?
 Some folks have an idea that there Is something mysterious about the growing of fruits and berries. As a matter of fact the same amount of care and attention required by most vegetables will enable one to be equal ly successful with strawberries. rasD- berries. entrants. grapes, etc. All of these things should be grown on every place that has a home garden. They do not require q large amount of room. In fact all but the straw berries can be trained up against q fence, utilized as a hedge. or. as in the case of grapes, grown against the house or over an arbor. Therefore. little or none Of the ground which is being used for lawn or vegetable gar den need be taken up for the grow ing of fruit. As strawberries, even when grown by the hill method" can be planted as close as 12 to IS inches each way, and as well grown plants will produce from a pint 10 q quart of berries each. no great amount of space is required to supply the family table. 4 bed as small as 4 to feet wide and 25 to 50 feet long will give enough fruit to make the planting very well worth while,-and the berries will be of finer quality than you are likely to get in te market because they can ripen fully Berries to be shipped to market have to be picked in a very firm, almost green, state and never get the same deHcious flavor as those which ripen where they are grown.
 None of the fruits mentioned above are over particular about soil. They will grow sa satisfactorily anywhere that +h~, $. dinary vegetables will succeed. In fact they are often found surviving and still bearing some fruit after years of neglect. One should ali ways plan, however, in setting out small fruit 10 see that they are given just as good care and cultivation as that given the vegetable garden
 For a good supply of fruits for the small home place the following plants will be sufficient, although if there is room 1t may be well to add to the list, because all of these things are excellent for preserving and making jelies as well as for use in season.
 Instructions that will be useful Type. Number. Distance apart for planting;
 Strawberries CearIy)-5o to 100;
 (mfd-seasonl-5O to 100; Oate)-
 50 to 100; Ceverbearing- to 100
 12 to Is inches each way or in
 rows 1 or 2 feet apart.
 Raspberries Cred early)-6 to 12:
 Cred late)-6 to 12; Cblack)-6 tc
 12; Cyellow)-6 to 12. 8 by 6 1t
 apart or trained against fence.
 Blackberries (early)-6 to 12; Qate)
 -6 to 12. 5 to fl, apart or train
 ed on trellis.
 Dcwberries---6 to F. 5 t5y T 1t apart
 or trained on trelHs.
 Loganberries-6 to 12. 5 by '. ft apar,
 or trained on trellis.
 Grapes (White earIy)-1 or 2
 (black( early)-1 or 2; (purpl,
 Iate)--2 or 4; (red)-1 or 9; Cgold en)-1 or 2. 6 to f. apart
 Remember that in buying plant! of this kind you are making an in vestment that will give returns fol years to come Don't order wher, you can get the cheapest prices bu where you get the BEST PBANTs Responsible concerns will guarante the plants they sell you to be tru. to name, free from disease. and de livered in good condition. Strawber rtes are sold both as field grown am as potted plants; the latter will giv the quickest results. Potted plant of the everbearing varieties, such a Superb and Progressive. set out thi spring and properly cared for vii yield a good crop this fall.
 A very important point in makfn sure of success with all these thing is to get the ground ready for settin them out before the plants arrive { Spade or fork up thoroughly tn ground where they are to go an work into it -well-rotted manure an a good dressng-a handful or tw to each point-of ground bone o Q ''tankage." DO not merely dig a. hol in the sod big enough to set tn plant in and expect to get as goo results as if the whole strip C ground where the plants are to go all dug up and fertilized. Sometime it happens that the whole space can not conveniently be dug up, and i this case a space Gf at least two c