266 The Canadian Horticulturist. 



CLOSE PRUNING AND TYING OF RASPBERRIES. 



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W ^1^ ^^ several years back a wealthy neighbor in sight of my home, has 

 had a raspberry patch which he has pruned very closely in August 

 and kept tied to small stakes scarcely larger than bean poles and 

 four and one-half feet high. The varieties are Gregg and some early 

 variety, probably Souhegan. Thorough cultivation has been given 

 by plowing in the spring and cultivating after fruiting. The canes 

 are allowed to grow at will until after picking when the old wood is 

 removed and the new tied to the stakes and the ends cut off about five feet high. 

 Short laterals grow after this pruning and contrary to what one would suppose, 

 do not winter kill any worse than when pinched early in the season. I think 

 this plantation must be about ten years old, and up to last year was wonderfully 

 productive. Last year anthracnose injured a part of it, but there is a little this 

 year. However I think it has seen its best days and should be cleared up and 

 the ground treated to rotation crops. 



Nearer home a young gardener is practicing the same method and his 

 plantation seems wonderfully productive, but what the yield is I am unable to 

 say as I dislike to ask him. He might think it none of my business and give 

 me an answer that might not tally with the facts. He does not have a stake for 

 every hill but uses No. 12 wire with stakes 20 or more feet apart. The merit of 

 the plan lies in the efifect that the canes are up out of the way and secure from 

 breaking by wind, ice, or snow, and the fruit gets abundant light and air and is 

 easy to pick. The young gardener grows early cabbage, beets, onions, radishes 

 and lettuce in rows between the raspberries which are seven feet apart, one way, 

 and three the other. The plantation is close to the barnyard and manure is 

 applied with a wheelbarrow. The manure helps the berry crop, and it is possible 

 the berries use some portion not needed by the vegetables. I am thinking of 

 wiring up an acre which I planted four feet apart, believing that I can get enough 

 more from it to pay for the work and expense with a handsome profit to boot. 

 — L. B. Pierce, E. F. G. 



A Medina, N.Y., letter dated June 13, says : " Orleans County fruit 

 growers have a new apple destroyer to contend with in the form of a small green 

 worm which eats into the apple itself when it has begun to form. The worm is 

 smaller than the dark worm which sometimes attacks the matured fruit and eats 

 its way mto the heart of the apple, causing it to wither and die. Some orchards 

 in this vicinity are most devastated by this new pest. In the early spring the 

 most promising fruit was the Baldwin, which is grown in large quantities through- 

 out the country. This apple has come along so rapidly, however, that many 

 orchards are far in advance of the season. In several large orchards the fruit 

 will be premature. Already in some cases the Baldwin has begun to color, 

 though the apple is but one-third the usual size." — Fruit Trade Bulletin. 



