Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1877 — Small Fruit in Gardens. [ARTICLE]

Small Fruit in Gardens.

But few people seem to know the value of small fruit to a family, when grown in their own gardens. You commence with strawberries; they continue about a month. You pick, perhaps, from six to twelve quarts a day. You have them on your table as a desert, if you please, at noon, and your tea table is loaded with them at evening, and you want bujb little else bat your bread and butter. Your family consumes, in one way or another, about eight quarts a day, and while they last no medicine for bodily ailments are required, as a quart of strawlierries daily will generally dispell all ordinary diseases not settled permanently in the system. After strawberries, raspberries come, to continue about three weeks; then we have blackberries, where the climate is not too cold for cultivated varieties; then the currants ripen, which will remain until early grapes mature; and taking the season through, any family with a half acre of land in a garden, can grow small fruits that make country life delightful, and at the same time hundreds of dollars can be saved in the Supply of the table. — Chatar qua Farmer.