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whether the plan would succeed in our 

 more rigorous climate. 



Grape Cuttings. — Most propagators ad- 

 vise making grape cuttings in the au. 

 tumn, and burying them until the 

 spring, so that the cut surface may heal ; 

 or early in December, and packing them 

 away in sand in the root cellar. No 

 doubt this is the best time, but we 

 usually have complete success with cut- 

 tings from wood pruned in March. We 

 bury them as soon as the frost is out, 

 and leave them two or three weeks. 

 Scarcely any fail to grow. 



Cuttings need to be about six inches 

 long, and include two buds : those with 

 one bud seldom succeed, except in a 

 green house, or hot bed. 



RASPBERRIES FOR MARKET. 



BY W. W. niLBORN, ARKONA, 



To grow the Blackcap raspberry for 

 market I plant them in rows eight feet 

 apart and three feet apart in the row. 



If the soil is as rich as it should be 

 for Blackcaps, this will not be too great 

 a distance. 



When they get to be full grown 

 plants there will only be space enough 

 left between the rows to gather the 

 fruit and work around the plants. 



When the new growth of the first 

 year reaches twelve or fifteen inches in 

 height, pinch it back ; the second year 

 after planting, allow it to grow about 

 two feet high before pinching back- 

 There is more danger of letting them 

 get too high before pinching back, than 

 tliere is in heading back too soon. 



By keeping the plants down low the 

 wind does not break them down so much 



and they will produce a larger crop of 

 fruit. 



Give them good cultivation early in 

 in the season, stirring the soil often, 

 and do not wait until the weeds spring 

 up and force you to cultivate them. 

 By moving the soil often, you promote 

 growth, and weeds have no chance to 

 get a start. 



Cut out all old wood as soon as the 

 crop of fruit has been gathered. Cul- 

 tivate and plough the land, throwing 

 the soil toward the plants. 



By stopping cultivation early, the 

 new wood or canes will ripen up well 

 before winter comes on, thus enabling 

 them to stand lower temperature with- 

 out injury. 



They will require nothing more un- 

 til spring, when the bushes will need 

 pruning back. 



They should be well cultivated as 

 early in spring as the soil will per- 

 mit, and the cultivator kept going 

 through them often, (once a week is 

 none too often) until the fruit begins 

 to color. Where mulch of either coarse 

 manure or straw can be procured it 

 should be placed around the bushes, 

 on the land that cannot be reached by 

 the cultivator, immediately after culti- 

 vating out the first time in spring. This 

 will help to keep down weeds and re- 

 tain moisture. 



VARIETIES TO PLANT. 



In recommending varieties to plant 

 for market, I will only speak of those 

 that have been well tested in many 

 parts of the country, and say nothing 

 about the new varieties, some of which 

 are very promising. 



