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them extra care, cultivate and prune with an eye to perfection. When 

 in bloom cross the flowers of the two varieties, save seed from finest 

 berries and plant in rich soil, and from the seedlings produced select the 

 plants that most nearly satisfy your ideal. Then continue on through 

 succeeding generations till you obtain the variety you desire. 



Second method. — Propagation by tips is the one in common practice 

 from which our market is supplied with plants. In following this 

 method secure your plants from a vigorous plantation of pure stock that 

 has received proper care, cultivation and pruning, from some responsible 

 party who knows how to grow, pack and handle good plants. The roots 

 of raspberry tips are so 3'oung and tender that a few minutes exposure to 

 the sun, wind or frost will ruin them, or, if improperly packed they will 

 in a short time spoil from heating. For this reason buy as near home as 

 possible, plant in spring on well drained, friable land sufficiently rich to 

 grow eighty bushels of corn per acre, bring it up by well rotted manure 

 thoroughly worked in by frequent plowing and harrowing. 

 Land rolling enough to drain and not steep enough to 

 Avash is preferable. Prepare land before planting by deep plowing and 

 thoroughly pulverize with harrow. Mark out rows with one-horse plow 

 three or four inches deep, seven feet apart, and set plants three feet apart 

 in row (2,074 plants per acre.) Keep plants in bucket covered with 

 water and set with garden dibble so the crown of plant will not be more 

 than two inches deep, and the roots as much deeper as they are long, or 

 nearly so, and press the soil so firmly to the plant. Cultivate frequently 

 and shallow, keep surface very fine. Eemember that every day your 

 land remains with a crust you lose fifty per cent of the gTowth. 



Pinch out the top bud the first year when canes are fifteen inches 

 high, the second and succeeding years at two feet. This will cause them 

 to throw out numerous laterals for tipping, if it be desirable to make all 

 the plants possible regardless of obtaining fruit, then pinch out the 

 terminal bud of each lateral at twelve or fifteen inches, this will cause a 

 second multiplication of laterals and very much increase the number of 

 plants. Layering may be done at any time from the middle of July on 

 through August. In putting down the tips bury the end of each young 

 growth three to five inches deep, if the season is dry five inches, if wet 



