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The principal varieties of red raspberries may be briefly described as 

 follows : 



Marlboro. — Usually productive; fruit medium to large, crimson, flesh 

 firm and juicy, quality medium; bush upright, not so rank a grower as 

 Cuthbert, hardy. The standard early variety, ripening about one week 

 earlier than Cuthbert. 



Cuthbert. — Standard main crop variety; productive; fruit large, dull 

 red, good quality; an excellent shipper; bush strong grower, moderately 

 hardy. 



Herbert. — Very productive ; fruit large, bright red, juicy, quality very 

 good ; season medium ; bush very hardy. In Canada Herbert will probably 

 replace Cuthbert for home use. 



Planting 



The red raspberry is planted in either autumn or spring. If suckers 

 are transplanted from the grower's own patch, as is often the case in 

 commercial work, the best time is early September. This gives the plants 

 sufficient time to establish themselves in the soil before winter, and there 

 is very little danger of winterkilling. If the work cannot be done in 

 early autumn, it would probably be better to wait until spring rather 

 than do the planting late in the fall. Spring planting should be done as 

 early as convenient, so that the plants will not be seriously retarded in 

 starting. Some growers in western New York are setting new patches 

 in May, using young sprouts that have grown the same spring. Wherever 

 the plan has been tried the growers agree that it has been successful. 



Generally the rows are six feet apart with the plants three feet apart 

 in the row. Marlboro may be planted at this distance. In the case of 

 other varieties, when it is difficult to keep canes and suckers from getting 

 too thick, the distance between the rows should be increased. Cuthbert, 

 for example, should be planted not closer than seven or eight feet. Growers 

 who plant as far as eight feet apart are satisfied with that distance, assert- 

 ing that the ease of cultivation makes up for the slight loss in yield, if 

 there is any loss at all. 



In this connection it is suggested that the plants be set in rows running 

 crosswise as well as lengthwise, so that the grower can cultivate both ways. 

 Five feet by five feet is convenient. Or the filler system might be tried, 

 the rows being set five feet apart and the plants two and one half feet 

 apart in the row; in this case, after a few crops are picked and when the 

 rows begin to get too thick, the grower can cut out every other plant in 

 the row, leaving the plants five feet apart each way as suggested in the 

 former method. It is believed that the latter method will give no decrease 



