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that the canes which bear fruit this I fruit, and four others were allowed to 



present season will die in the autumn, rise in the centre. At the end of the 



and have to be cut away, and while ' 



they are in bearing condition, others 



will rise from the stools to take their 



place next season, hence the bearing 



canes should be so trained as to allow 



the suckers to rise without obstruction 



in the enjoyment of a free circulation 



of air and plenty of light. If a 



plantation of raspberries gets crowded, 



the old canes choke the young ones, 



and the stocks get more lean and 



feeble every year, and at last cease to 



be profitably productive. 



season, the canes trained out were cut 

 away, and the new canes tied out to 

 take their place for the next season, 

 thus giving the bearing canes free 

 exposure, and keeping the centre of 

 each stool always open. Another 

 method that has been described is to 

 plant in rows six feet apart, and the 

 canes three together, four feet apart 

 in each row, and exactly opposite each 

 other all through the piece. At the 

 end of the first season, the year old 

 canes are pruned away, and the young 

 ones are bent down and made to 

 meet each other so as to form arches 



Another mode of planting is to put 

 in single canes along a rough espalier 

 fence of hazel rods, or against a wire 

 trellis, the canes two feet apart, so as 

 to allow two or three bearing canes to 

 each, to be trained in at equal distances 

 as they rise. Training on hoops, 

 supported on light stakes, is a good 



plan in the open ground, but the 

 prettiest raspberry plantation we ever 

 saw, was managed thus : — They were 

 planted in rows three and a half feet 

 apart, and five feet from each other in 

 the rows. Each stool was allowed to 

 send up only four canes, and these 

 were trained out to short stakes, put 

 in at equal distances from the centre 

 of each plant; the canes, when tied 

 out to the stakes, being shortened in to 

 two feet and a half each. During the 

 summer, the canes trained out bore 



across the six-feet space, and the four 

 feet space remains open for tillage, 

 and the growth of suckers, and may, 

 of course, be used for crops of small 

 things, such as lettuce, cabbage, &c, 

 which will not rob the raspberries if 

 the ground is kept in good heart, and 

 the rows well watered during dry 

 weather. The next season the old 

 canes would be cut away, and the 

 young ones bent over the four-feet 

 space, and shortened so as just to meet 

 for tying together, and through that 

 season the six-feet space would be 

 cropped with vegetables and salads 

 just as the four- feet space was the 



