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transplanting and thorough cultivation afterwards, two-thirds of a crop may 

 in this way be obtained the next year: while if we wait till next spring to 

 plant, no fruit at all will be realized that year. In order to get plants well 

 rooted thus early, assistance must be given by placing a small portion of 

 earth on the runner near its end, just at the time the leaves are put forth 

 that are to become a part of the new plant: or a better plan is to pulverize 

 the earth at this point and lay a small pebble on the runner. The pebble 

 serves the double purpose of creating moisture around the new roots, and of 

 preventing the moving of the runner by the wind. By this method vigor- 

 ous plants may be had by 10th to 15th day of July. Plants may be taken 

 from the ground with a garden trowel, with enough dirt around the roots to 

 keep them from wilting when transplanted during the hottest weather If 

 ground is plentiful, I plant in rows two feet apart and fifteen inches apart in 

 the row. If the variety planted is of a vigorous and luxuriant growth the 

 plants may be placed two feet apart each way. Give frequent but shallow 

 cultivation up to the time of frost. When the first freeze comes mulch 

 lightly (I say lightly for this is very frequently overdone), with leaves, corn 

 stalks or some other substance that will not seed the bed. I would say use 

 clean straw, if it were possible to have straw in this condition. When dan- 

 ger of freezing is past in the spring, open the mulch above the plants, allow- 

 ing it to remain on the bed until after the fruit is gathered, then remove it, 

 and cultivate as last year; keeping all tlie runners off for two years. The 

 third year allow the bed to become matted, plant a new Ijed, and the fourth 

 year after the fruit is gathered spade or plow up the old bed. 



VARIETIES. 



Out of the multitude now claiming public favor I will name three, which 

 will, I think, fill all the requirements of any family not too fastidious, to 

 wit: Crescent Seedling, Cmnberland Triumph i\nd Kentucky. 



To procure 



RASPBERRY PLANTS 



Of the black cap varieties, the tips of the canes must be inserted in the 

 ground two or three inches, in the latter part of August or first part of Sep- 

 tember. If not placed deeply in the ground the winds or the freezing and 

 thawing are apt to displace them. I'lant as early in the si ring as the condi- 

 tion of the ground will admit, in rows six feet apart and three feet apart in 

 the row. Let but one cane grow the first year, and pinch back when at the 

 liight of twelve or fifteen inches. Stir the ground so frequently that no 

 weeds or gra.ss will grow. In the spring, with pruning shears, cut laterals 

 back within two or three indies of main can(\ The second and each snc- 

 • •eeding year allow three or four canes to grow, being very careful to pinch 

 back to twenty to twenty-four niches. Care nuist be tjiken that this pinch- 

 ing back be done just at the time the cane attiiins this height. If you allow 

 it to grow lo tbirly inches, (hen ciil l)ack to twenty, you will have but few 



