The cultivation of small fruits is, according to Miss Florence Kern, one of the best ways to insure safe returns from an investment, with a reasonable profit. Small fruits, she says, is one of her hobbies.
The particular kinds of small fruits in which Miss Kern has become interested are grapes and raspberries. She has tired her hand at both on her land in the western part of Brevard and has had very satisfactory results. She believes it will pay people generally to raise them and bases her belief on her own success.
A few seasons back, Miss Kern set out a handful of raspberry plants. They grew well and multiplied amazingly. One variety called the Columbia, a large purple berry, was cultivated successfully in regular rows, but another variety, the ever bearing, was left much to itself, grew up in profusion, with red berries shining among the leaves from early springtime till killing frost.
Here, then, is a crop easy to grow. The fruit, as everyone knows, is delicious in the raw state and is fine for canning purposes. But not least among its advantages is the fact that the raspberry, as well as the grape, defies the vicissitudes of this early spring climate, and will thrive and produce when large fruits, like apples and peaches, are killed by frost.
In a year like this, when apple and peach orchards are barren, the hardy small fruits ought to make friends with farmer and horticulturists, is Miss Kern’s conviction.
From The Brevard News, Friday, July 8, 1921
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