... properly Aeri7ised and the bottles quite air-tight, the fruit will keep almost indefinitely, plums, gooseberries, raspberries, blackberries and currants bottled in 1903 being quite good in the winter of 1910-11. The use of syrup is not essential, pure water heing ...

... from one to three inches in length, and bottom heat is desirable to strike them, ex. opting with such hardy subjects as blackberries. Where the top of a plant is a graft the root cutting naturally produces the orit t iz i l stock, not the grafted variety ...

... but it will 'actually yield both larger :toil better crops than more closely planted areas. It IKS. cultivated American blackberries yield large crops of most, useful berries, and aro well worth cultivation in every garden that has room for them. They ...

... fruits and strong clay and sandy looms give the best results. Wet and heavy soils are most unsuitable. Raspberries and blackberries do well on comparatively light soils, and currants and gooseberries succeed in even heavy clay. Thorough preparation of ...

... Standard pears 25 feet. Standard plums 20 feet. Standard cherries 20 to 30 feet. Dwarf apples and pears 12 to 15 feet Blackberries 4 by feet. Currants 4 by 6 fret. Gooseberries 4 he 6 feet. Ravherries 3 by . h tort. Pruning. and .pra%ing an. (quay and ...

... strong soils are better adapted fee the more weakly growing bushes and lighter Inn(ls for I the rampant growers, such as blackberries and raspberries. It is undesirable to let the ground between the bushes be covered with grass. as it ought to bo regularly ...

... NOTES ON SMALL FRUITS. Blackberries.--Surface tillage to oneervo the soil-moisture is necessary in dry a tuntions. Mulching is even more ellectiv where practicable. Exposure of picked fruit to hot sunshir impairs its quality in a few minutes. To e two ...

... the top open by removing crowded lirnbe and such misplaced ones as cross the head or rub against the ' other branches. Blackberries.—lt is very important 1.. pinch off the tops of the canes as soon AS they become from 18 to 24 inchtw high in aumm-r. old ...

... BLACKBERRY CULTURE. Many of the American blackberries are excellent fruits. Strong, well drained clay soils are best, but the plants thrive almost anywhere. Where possible, a cool exposure is desirable. On good soils no manure will be needed until the ...

... 12 years of age from the Alvah district was charged with having broken into a cottage in the district and stolen 1-Ib. of blackberry jam. maliciously killed two tame rabbits, and stolen two pigeons. Mr F. A. Watt. solicitor .appeared on behalf of accused ...

... the best possible quality for cooking, preserving, and bottling for winter use. It is supposed to be a hybrid between the blackberry and the raspberry, but it is eartisinkT better and more profitable than either parent if such be the case. The fruit is ...

... fruits in the prase. He did not. favour the common practice of planting tbetwbushm against a wall. no matter what the aspect. Blackberry plants should be put out in the open and would sutweed host on damp. clayey soils. On sooh soils they could plant. nothing ...