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Fig. 2769. How to Prune Raspberries. 



of Walkerton. Turner, Reliance and Marl- 

 boro are the best early varieties, the latter, 

 however, having the preference both for 

 shipping quality and productiveness. 



Pruning the Raspberry 



IF not already done, the work of cutting 

 out the dead canes should be finished 

 this month to give room for the new growth. 

 Not only should the dead canes be cut out, 

 but the superfluous young canes should be 

 removed for five or six canes to each stool 

 are quite sufficient, and too many will 

 tend to choke the vigor of the planta- 

 tion. The pruning of the bushes themselves 

 should be done very closely, as the small, 

 weak ends of the canes will not yield much 

 fruit, and yet they withdraw strength from 

 the bearing buds. These should be cut 

 back to where the buds are strong and well 

 developed; and the side branches should 

 also be cut back in the same way as the 

 canes, leaving short stubs from three to four 

 inches in length. Both blackcaps, and red 

 raspberries, the Cuthbert especially, may be 

 treated in this way. The method will be 

 better understood from the accompanving 

 engraving (Fig. 2768) than from a whole 

 paragraph of reading matter. 



The Past, Present and Future of 

 the Canadian Horticulturist 



THE first number of this journal ap- 

 peared at St. Catharines in January, 

 1878, so that on the first of January, 1904, 

 it completed twenty-six years of its history. 

 That number was a little sixteen-page 

 monthly, and as an introduction Mr. D. W. 

 Beadle, who had been the efficient secretary 

 of the Association since i860, wrote as fol- 

 lows : 



The directors of the Fruit Growers' Associa- 

 tion have long- felt the importance of having a 

 monthly publication as a medium of communica- 

 tion between the members, and a means of im- 

 parting information on subjects of interesit more 

 frequently and promptly than can be done by 

 the annual report. And now, after careful de- 

 liberation, they have decided to make the ex- 

 periment, and commence to-day the issue of the 

 Horticulturist, in the hope that it will find favor 

 with the members. It will be devoted chiefly 

 to the publication of such information as is 

 sought after by those who are interested in fruit 

 culture, yet not neglecting those kindred sub- 

 jects which are closely connected with that pur- 

 suit. The lover of fruits is also usually a lover 

 of flowers, and delights to surround the house 

 with a well kept lawn. It will therefore con- 

 tain occasional articles intended to guide and 

 . help those who seek to cultivate flowering 

 plants and shrubs, and to make their grounds 

 bright with summer flowers. And if the less 

 showy, but not less important vegetalble garden 

 should have a place now and then in these 

 pages, there are those among the readers, it is 

 believed, who will welcome any timely informa- 

 tion in this department also. 



But while the directors will spare no pains to 

 make the Horticulturist acceptable and profit- 

 able, it will nevertheless be, in a very large de- 

 gree, what the members shall make it. If they 

 shall use it as the medium through which they 

 tell each other of success and of failure with 

 particular fruits, flowers, trees, etc., then will 

 it become what the directors hope, a mirror, in 

 which is reflected continually the horticultural 

 progress and skill of Ontario. They ask, there- 

 fore, that the members will regard it as their 

 publication, put forth in their interests, to help 

 them in whatever way they can, and to be used 

 by them for the promotion of horticulture in 

 this Ca;nada of ours. 



Mr. Beadle was well qualified to edit such 

 a magazine, having had a college education 

 as well as a practical training in horticulture. 

 Under his able editorship the journal be- 

 came very valuable to fruit growers, and the 



