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canes have borne, they are cut out, in the same manner as the 

 canes of raspberries and blackberries." Mr. Wilcox trains to three 

 strands of No. 13 wire, the top strand being three feet from the 

 ground. 



Upon several accounts, however, I prefer tying the canes to 

 stakes as shown in Fig. 132. Three or four canes may be allowed 

 to grow from each plant, and these are tied to the stakes, with wool 

 twine or willow thongs, two or three times during the season, as 

 they grow. The canes may be left on the stakes all winter, although 

 it is better, particularly in exposed localities, to lay them down late 

 in fall. Whilst the year-old canes are bearing fruit, the new ones 

 are growing on the ground. As soon as the fruit is removed, the 

 old canes are cut out and the new oues are tied up for the remainder 

 of the season. To prevent the breaking of these young canes by 

 the early cultivating, it is necessary to turn them lengthwise the 

 row with a fork. If they become very strong and if the land gets 

 weedy, it may be advisable to tie up these young canes along with 

 the old ones before the fruit is picked. On the other hand, if the 

 land is clean, so that much cultivating or hoeing is unnecessary, the 



new canes may be allowed to lie on the ground 

 throughout the entire season. This is scarcely ad- 

 visable, however, for they are likely to make a weak 

 and soft growth in weeds and grass and shade, and 

 the ground cannot receive the attention which it 

 should have. Some persons tie dewberries to a 

 woven wire screen, as seen in Fig. 133. This is a 

 neat practice for a few vines in the garden, but is 

 too expensive for the field, and the spaces in the 

 screen are not large enough to allow of the easy 

 movement of the hand through it when tying and 

 picking. 



The one great merit of the dewberry is the earli- 

 ness of the fruit. The fruit is indistinguishable 

 134. Lucretia dew- fr^,^ the blackberry bv the general public, and it 



berry, natural size. . . -, i n, ' . i t i i 



IS ten days and often two weeks earlier than the 

 standard varieties of blackberries. " Dewberries, raspberries, and 

 blackberries grow side by side in our plantations, and we have had, 

 therefore, a good oppoi'tunity to observe the earliness of the 

 Lucretia. This year (1891) the lirst ripe raspberries — Marlboro 



