Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 August 1908 — THE HOME FRUIT GARDEN. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE HOME FRUIT GARDEN.

Suggestions For Making It Profitable as Well as Useful. The home fruit garden Is not only attractive when the strawberries are in bloom or in fruiting or when the raspberries, currants, pears, peaches or other fruits are ready to pick. The home garden Is ever an attractive spot. No member of the family, no visitor or other person can pass this garden devoted to the growing of the various fruits for home use without being attracted to it. Such a home fruit garden expresses much to the observer at all seasons of the year. It speaks of contentment, of health and of the home table embellished • with beautiful and delicious specimens of large and small fruits. The location of the home fruit garden should be as near the dwelling as possible. It may embrace an acne, half an acre, quarter of an acre or it may be confined to the rear end of a forty foot lot in town or city. If you have plenty of land, give the fruit garden

liberal space. If you have simply a town or city lot, make the most of this small plot of ground at your disposal, remembering that by cutting back the new growth every year on the fruit trees many of them can be grown in small space or on the borders near fences. You may have one row devoted to grapevines, another row to raspberries, another row to blackberries, another to currants and several rows devoted to strawberries, each row running the whole length of the fruit garden and so planted as to admit of horse cultivation. The disposal of the rows of apple, peach, pear, plum and cherry trees can be easily arranged. Plant the rows of trees far enough apart to admit the various rows of small fruits between the rows of trees. Grapevines will thrive equally well when trained to the side of the house or to any other building or trained to the pillars of the porches of the house. If there is a surplus of fruit it may be easily marketed. If sent to the city it must be carefully packed. The crate shown In the sketch is equipped with a tight wooden cover, yet is sufficiently open to allow the air to circulate. It will hold about sixty quarts of herties. Read The Democrat for news.

HOW TO PACK BERRIES.