- PROPAGATING RED RASPBERRIES. 
The President: I think Mr. Elliot’s ideas are good. We do not 
want to waste land, and we have followed the planting of raspberries 
the old way long enough. Planting raspberries seven feet apart is 
time thrown away with us. If I could get plenty of plants, I would 
plant them three and one-half feet apart. It is easy enough to kill out 
plants in thiscountry. What you want is to occupy all the ground. 
Mr. Elliot suggests you can have strong bushes by setting two or 
three plants in a hill; his idea is to havea perfect stand. Itisan 
easy matter to take out the plants if you do not want them, but itis 
harder to start plants after the plantation is under way. We have 
eight or ten acres planted, and we follow the plan of putting the 
rows three and one-half feet apart, letting them grow two years and 
then taking out every other row. We get quitea nicecrop of berries 
the second year. They are on very rich ground where they get a 
good strong growth. I should think others might kill out plants as 
easy as we do. 
Mr. Harris: I would advise setting two strongly rooted plants, 
and if not very strong then set ina third one. We have adopted the 
plan of setting the rows of blackcaps twice as thick as we want them 
and then taking out every other row the second year. 
Mr. Wright: It would be a good thing for the nurserymen to 
follow that plan. (Laughter). 
The President: I think the nurserymen would be willing to com- 
promise and put in two where they are weak. The thought Mr. 
Elliot intends to bring out is to have a perfect stand. It is better to 
have an acre with a full stand than to have two acres with only half 
a stand. ; 
Mr. Pond: Would nota weak plant be more apt to die if there 
were several in a hill than if there was only one? 
The President: I have not had that experience. I do not think it 
would be necessary to plant them all in a bunch; you could spread 
them: out. You plant three kernels of corn, and you want at least 
two of them togrow. If you plant only one, and it should happen 
not to grow, you would be out a hill of corn and waste just that 
much land. If you plant two raspberry plants and both of them 
_ grow, cut out one, if you do not want it. 
Mr. C.L.Smith: I have tried both ways of planting. I have had 
such good plants and so well planted in a favorable season that the 
plants were too thick in the row. I have also had such poor plants 
and so poorly planted that there were not nearly enough plants in 
the row, and [I would rather wrestle with a dozen rows where the 
plants are too thick than with one where there are not enough. 
Mr. Lord: I have been cultivating raspberries for about twenty 
years only, and { have always followed Mr. Elliot’s plan. I take a 
spade in planting, drive it down, then puta plant at each end and 
one in the middle. 
Mr, Kramer: That is the way we go to work to make a new planta- 
tion. We get much better results in that way. 
The President: It seems to me we ought to be able to tell when a 
plant isin good condition, and it makes no difference whether a 
