THE BLACK RASPBERRY. 51 



Pres. Underwood: When would you pinch them? 



Mr. Hopkins: I pinch them any time. 



Mr. Harris: T do not think tho red raspberry sliould ever be 

 pinched. 



Mr. Wm. Turnbull: In speaking about planting raspberries 

 so far apart I want to tell you a little experience. I am an 

 amateur and will not go into the details, but I went to work 

 and set out a patch with little bits of plants, and I got them 

 pretty close together, and when the}' grew next year they 

 were all close together. One night friend Harris stopped at 

 our house, and the first thing in the morning my wife asked 

 him to go to see the garden and the raspberry patch. 

 When he got there, he just held up his hands. **I never saw 

 such a crop of raspberries in all my life. And they are planted 

 so close together. I do not see how that comes. I never saw 

 such a crop. How is it?" I said my wife looked after everything, 

 and that is the way it comes. I have since planted them farther 

 apart, and we have never had such a good crop. 



Mr. Harris: Mr. Turnbull is telling the pure facts about 

 it. That is one reason why I am in favor of close planting. 

 Tho variety he speaks of was the old Philadelphia, and it 

 looked as though there was a half bushel on every hill. 



Mr. Cutts: Has anyone ever seen a whitecap berry bearing to 

 any extent? Some one brought me one last 3'ear. 



Mr. Smith: It is a very hard, solid berry, and if any one buys 

 them, ihey don't want to buy them again. 



Mr. Harris: You can't sell them in the market the second 

 time. 



Mr. Smith: They are inferior in flavor and quality. They 

 do not yield very early, and they are not good berries. 



Mr. Harris: They are a sort of variation from the black- 

 cap. 1 had some on my place, but it would not pay to grow 

 them. 



All plants do not require yearly repotting; some need it twice or 

 half a dozen times a year, as will be the case in g^rowing plants from 

 seeds or cutting's to blooming size. It is easy to find out when such 

 plants need repotting. Spread the fingers of the left hand over the 

 surface of the soil, and turn the pot top downward, rappitig the rim 

 sharply once or twice upon the edge of a bench or table. This will 

 leave the mold of earth and roots upon your left hand, and if the 

 roots are crowded they need a jjot one size larger. Old specimen 

 plants which do not need repotting shouUl be topdres.sed ye.irly 

 witli well-decayed manure or rich earth. 



