136 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
Mr. Elliot: That is a pointI would like to have discussed here—in 
regard to planting three plants inahill. Ihave atheory of my own 
in that respect, and I would like to hear that point brought out and 
discussed. 
Mr. Harris: Mr. President, just one moment. If you are going to 
grow raspberries for fruit, put in your cultivator just as soon as 
you can in the spring. If you are propagating raspberries for 
plants then do not cultivate at all. Those bushes that you put the 
cultivator in are going to raise plants early, but you get only about 
half as strong plants as if youletthem alone. They have the whole 
season to grow in. We had a perfect crop on plants set out last 
spring, and they bore right on up to the middle of October. 
Mr, Elliot: I have been making some observations in regard to 
growing raspberries the last four or five years. I have had occasion 
to visit quite a number of places in northern Minnesota where they 
make a success of that kind of fruit, but I noticed that nearly every 
one of them planted only single canes in the hill, and many of them 
have a great many vacant spaces in their rows the first season, and 
they have to fill in those vacancies the next fall or spring. Now, 
would it not be better to plant two or three plants ina hill and have 
a full stand to start with? If, as the first gentlentan states, there 
are too many roots ina hill, itis an easy matter to cut out one or 
two plants. If I ever am so fortunate as to be able to grow raspber- 
ries, I should try the method of putting two or three plants in the 
hill, according to the strength of the canes. 
Mr. Busse: If aman starts a raspberry patch he does not intend 
to buy two or three times as many plants as he wants to set out that 
patch with and then have to pull them up again. Ifthe plants are 
not well matured, as they were in 1895, then one is not enough. If 
plants are scarce, a man does not want to put so many ina hill, but 
where a man raises his own plants he can set out as many as he 
wantsto. I think Mr. Elliot is all right. 
Mr. Elliot: If a man has not enough plants to set out a piece of 
ground properly, why not set out less ground? 
Mr. Jewett: It seems there is no one here who has had experience 
in that line, that is, experience in setting them inthat way. I think 
one objection would be that we would have such a large number of 
vines we would not know what to do with them. I hada patch of 
berries that came so poorly I was about abandoning them, and 
finally my son suggested that Itake some young plants and set 
them out. I went to the berry patch and took the new shoots from 
that same year and planted them, and this year we have from seven 
to eight canes ina hill, as high as my head; the rows are planted 
six and one-half feet apart and the plants four feet apart in the row, 
They average eight canes apiece, and if we had set three plants we 
would have had so many we would not know what to do with them. 
We have so many canes now we have to cut them out. These were 
set in July, and they grew right along without watering, and it was 
not a very wet season. When they reached the height of eighteen 
inches I cut them off, and those canes are now about as high as my 
head. Imagine the result if we had put in about three times as 
many plants. 
