310 State Horticultural Society. 



Red. The purple varieties, which are a cross of red and bh\ck, hkc the 

 Shaffers Colossal mid the Coliiiiibian, have never proved satisfactory, 

 canes are too subject to anthracnose and winter-kill too easy. 



The black caps are the most reliable and in every respect, hardiest, 

 most prodnctive. easiest picked, and can be put to the most different uses. 

 Amono- the nian\ varieties I consider the Cumberland the best all round 

 berry. The Kansas is a good early one and the IMunger and Nemaha 

 good late ones. The greatest enemy to the raspberry is anthracnose. 

 \\hich attacks the canes, causing theni to die prematurely. The best 

 remedy is to use means of prevention by keeping the patch clean of weeds, 

 removing and burning tho old canes atul spraying with Boardeaux mix- 

 ture which, if not a siu'c preventive, will at least hold this disease in 

 check. 



In starting a new patch the ground should be well prepared, the 

 same as for any other crop. The planting of black caps should be 

 done in the spring as soon as the ground is fit to work. The red or 

 sucker varieties can be successfully planted in the fall, but should have 

 a nuilch of some kind thrown around for protection against the winter. 

 The plants should be set in rows about 6 to 7 feet apart and plants 3 feet 

 apart in the row. Give good cultivation, keeping the ground loose and 

 free from weeds and grass. \Mien the canes get some 30 inches in 

 height they should be pinched off to make them grow more stocky and 

 throw out laterals. After the winter is passed the canes should be 

 pruned and all the dead and discolored wood removed and even if the 

 wood is fresh and grreen to the tips, the main stem should be short- 

 ened to 3 feet and the laterals not left over 6 or 8 inches long. 



One of the best growers I ever saw, INIr. Boggs of Stotesburg, grows 

 his berries by setting posts same as for grapes, and uses two wires, on the 

 outside of the posts and canes, at about 3 feet from the ground which 

 holds the canes up and keeps them tight so the wind cannot break 

 them down. He removes all tho bearing or dying canes soon as the 

 season is over which throws all the strength of the roots to th.e new 

 canes. 



The raspberrv i? a very popular berrv from the fact that it ripens 

 its fruit at a very opportime time, completing the gap between the straw- 

 berry and blackberry, a season of about three or four weeks, giving 

 the lover of berries a continual feast from the begrinning of strawberries 

 to the close of the blackberries without a break. The raspberry is very 

 popular with the good housekeeper because she can use it in so many 

 different ways. It can be served either as fresh fruit with sugar and 

 cream or made into jams or jellies, canned or preserved. \Mien cooked 



