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Pres. Underwood: That is what I mean. 



Mr. Gardner: They claim that is the best way, and I do not 

 knew but what it is so; my experince would not warrant me in 

 saying whether it is the best way or not. There is this about 

 it, in planting tips a great many will not grow, as everybody 

 knows, and if you grow them in rows close together the first 

 year you are apt to get a more perfect stand from those that 

 you do set out after growing a year than from planting the 

 tips. I do not see that there is any vitality lost. If you set 

 out such transplanted plants and cut the growth that has been 

 made the previous year back, I believe it is the best way to 

 proceed. 



Mr. J. A. Sampson: How long should a red raspberry field 

 continue fruiting. 



Mr. Gardner: It depends entirely upon circumstances. If 

 nothing comes along to injure it, no disease or anything of 

 that sort, you can keep it in good shape for six or seven years. 

 That is as long as I should try to keep it in bearing. If any 

 disease attacks the raspberry plantation, I do not care what it , 

 is, the best way is to plow it right up. 



Mr. J. A. Sampson: I have been growing raspberries for 

 eight or ten years, and the first field I ever set out is as good 

 yet as any I ever had. 



Mr. C. L. Smith: Have you tried transplanting the tips 

 enough to see whether the results would be satisfactory? Do 

 you know whether there is any loss of vitality? 



Mr. Gardner: I have not to any extent. 



Mr. Clarence Wedge: I would like to stick to that question 

 a little longer. I would like to know Mr. Underwood's experi- 

 ence or opinion in regard to planting tips or transplanted 

 plants of our black varieties. 



Pi"es. Underwood: I know it is often difficult to make a success- 

 ful planting- of one-year old tips. Even when you can get them in 

 the best of condition, there seems to be something the inatter with 

 thena; perhaps they are too soft or succulent in their growth; I 

 do not know what it is, but I do know there is quite apt to be a fail- 

 ure on the part of the transplanted tips. Friend Elliot suggested to 

 me once a bright idea, and I do not know but what I ought to en- 

 courage it in the interest of nurserymen, and that is to plant two 

 tips in every hill, and if one should die perhaps the other would 

 live, and if both should live we could pull out one. I do not know but 

 what it would after all be as cheap as the transplanted plants. Of 

 course.you would have to pay more. The idea I wished to draw out was 

 how much more value there was in one-year old transplanted plants 

 than in tips. In the east and south nurserymen are beginning to 



