The Canadian Horticulturist. 15 



RASPBERRY CULTURE. 



VERY farmer living within ten or twelve miles of a town of 

 1,000 or more people can well afford the time and s;round 

 required to produce raspberries. The soil should be wjell 

 pulverized, and the. plants placed six feet apart each way, 

 or if the land is scarce they may be planted as near as 

 3x6 feet. When planted close the cultivation is more 

 expensive, for after the canes are grown it is more difficult 

 to get among them. Having placed a plant, cover it an inch or more in the 

 ground, and firm the earth thoroughly around it. During the first year the 

 plants should be hoed and cultivated often enough to keep down all weeds, and 

 make the field as clean as if corn were planted. 



The second year, the crop if it sell well should pay all expenses connected 

 with it. The cultivation should continue the second year until the fruit begins 

 to set, when it should cease. Late cultivation not only injures the fruit, but is 

 likely to induce growth that will winter-kill in the cold weather. 



A common method of pruning the black raspberry is to go through the 

 bushes as the plants approach the desirable height, and with a sharp knife cut 

 off the top of each sprout. This prevents long arching branches, and causes 

 the plants to send out laterals on every side which balance the main stem. 

 These laterals will be found to fruit largely during the next season. 



In the fall with a one-horse plough throw a couple of furrows towards the 

 plants to keep them from heaving out with the frost in the following spring. In 

 the early spring these furrows should be levelled back again. For early fruiting 

 the Souhegan is by many considered the best, and should be set on a hillside 

 facing the south. For late bearing the Gregg is an excellent variety, and may 

 be planted on a northern slope. 



During the first season vegetables may be planted between the rows. This 

 will force cultivation to about the amount desired for the good of the raspberry 

 canes. 



Tiverton, Qnt. A. H. Cameron. 



Oak Trees of Beautiful Foliage. — In late autumn, sometimes weeks 

 after many other beautiful leaved trees have lost their foliage, the scarlet oak 

 (Quercus coccinea) presents a superb appearance. It can be identified by its 

 retaining its foliage long after other oaks, hickories, chestnuts, sour gum and 

 tulip trees have lost theirs, and singularly too, it at times does not take on 

 its scarlet attire until other trees are bereft of foliage. It is the best of all 

 for autumn color. The red oak is pretty, so is the pin, the white, the laurel- 

 leaved, the post and the Spanish oaks. The red oak takes on a reddish 

 color, the pin oak mingles considerable scarlet with its green, so does the 

 laurel-leaved oak (imbricaria), the post oak (obtusiloba), and the Spanish 

 (falcata) oak. A pretty purplish shade spreads over the green of the white 

 oak. — Gardeninp. 



