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it better by having a little dirt on it and can get a good stand with it 

 by leaving enough dirt around the roots to protect it. On the other 

 habd, by setting out a plant that has been shipped in, boxed and packed 

 up for a long while it has become heated and you are likely to lose them. 

 Last spring I bought a thousand plants and it took them a long while 

 to get a new growth. I have had a long experience in handling them and 

 I think there is where we fail in not allowing the old nodule, the old 

 part of this tip to remain. They grow from that. 



Mr. Yager: Replying to what Mr. Williams has said, I would hate 

 to have the idea go out from this meeting that the raspberry tip ought 

 to be planted four inches deep. I am very positive that is too deep, and 

 I am positive that with such raspberry plants as are usually secured from 

 nurseries that a person would encounter failure in planting them that 

 deep. I don't think that the crown ought to be more than two and a half 

 inches below the top of the ground. He is right about the new growth. 

 We have heard a good deal of talk about handling evergreens so to pro- 

 tect them from dying out, and I think that principle applies to the rasp- 

 berry plant. I think one of the things that has been the cause of so 

 much trouble is the fact that they have been subject to the action of the 

 wind and the heat, and they have been improperly handled between the 

 time they have been dug and the time the customer usually secures them. 

 There is not much difficulty in making good, healthy raspberry plants grow 

 if conditions are all right and the plant has been transported from the 

 ground where it was dug to the new place where it is to be replanted. 

 The difficulty or trouble comes largely to improper care between the time 

 it is dug and shipped and the time the customer gets it and before it is 

 put in the place where it is supposed to remain. 



I notice Mr. Murphy, from Iowa, in the audience and I would ask, 

 Mr. Presdient, that he be requested to help us out along this line. 



Mr. Murphy: I don't know as I can help you out any along this 

 line. I came over here to learn something. But my experience in 

 handling raspberry plants is that if you cover the crown very deep you 

 don't get any rapid growth. Conditions vary according to circumstances, 

 but it is sure if there comes a rain or something like that or if the ground 

 becomes packed over the plant, I am satisfied that it is gone. It is 

 quite important to get the ground in proper condition before you plant 

 and digging the hole large enough and spreading the roots out in proper 

 shape so as to put the plant in properly. There is no question but that 

 is the best way in the long run and then you will have all kinds, sizes and 

 ages of plants before you get a good stand. The strawberry is the same 

 way. 



Mr. Williams: I am advocating a four-inch deep planting. I do this 

 for the sake of getting the plant well established so that it will not 

 wave about when the wind blows. My trouble usually has been that 

 the wind waves them all about in the ground and you cannot overcome 

 or avoid this by shallow planting. Give the plant a chance to get out 



