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plant that will not blow down in succeeding years ; prune or top the 

 young canes or stalks when twenty to twenty-four inches high, which 

 is easily and rapidly done with a sharp pruning knife. Bun over the 

 patch twice a week until all are topped. In March or April cut out all 

 the old wood or brush, leaving the laterals from ten to eighteen inches 

 long. Gather up the brush ; it is excellent for washes or ruts. 



The above instruction does not apply to red raspberries that 

 sucker or sprout from the roots, but to all such as take roots at the 

 tip ends of the plant, which include Schaffer's Colossal. 



Plants that grow from suckers should be planted in rows four feet 

 apart each way, allowing from six to ten canes to the hill; keep down 

 all suckers, prune in spring, cut the tops away, leaving stumps from 

 sixteen to twenty-four inches high. Eed raspberries are too soft to 

 bear the rough handling that railroad men give our fruit, and unless 

 grown near a city market will not pay. I have very reluctantly dis- 

 carded all the reds except Schaffer, which is hard to propagate, and 

 requires heavy pruning. It is one of the best. 



What to plant : Having been in the berry culture business for 

 nearly twenty years, and having grown nearly all kinds of raspberries, 

 both old and new, I venture to name what is best to plant, well aware 

 that what is best with me may not be the best with you. For early, 

 Souhegan ; medium, Hopkins ; late, Ohio Black Cap. But should it be 

 my privilege to give a list at our winter meeting in 1890, I expect to 

 put Palmer instead of Souhegan, and perhaps Ada for Ohio Black Cap. 



While we in Holt county were completely swamped last season in 

 other berries, the raspberry crop was short, through neglect as usual. 

 But our berry growers begin to see their mistake, and at this writing 

 the prospect for the coming season is quite hopeful; having a tine 

 growth of well-matured berry plants of all kinds, we hope for such an 

 abundance of berries next season that the poor as well as the rich may 

 have plenty. As good horticulturists we w T ould not only cultivate and 

 prune our orchards and gardens, but cultivate also a kindly feeling 

 toward all, especially the helpless poor. We would prune out selfish- 

 ness, pinch back ambition, and cut off bad habits and cultivate patience 

 and charity, that we may rejoice in an abundant harvest of the fruits of 

 righteousness laid up against the time to come. 



DISCUSSION. 



Mr. Patterson— I fully agree with the writer as to the little value 

 of the red raspberry for market. I have picked them in the morning 

 and have had them come back on me in the evening. This year the 

 Schaffer would not sell at all. I don't know what to do with what I 



