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be more or less breaking down, and injury to the fruit 

 from the bending over of the canes, many growers prefer 

 to support them by means of stakes or trellises. Stakes 

 may be set in each hill, or for matted rows stout stakes 

 three feet high are driven at intervals of forty feet and 

 a No. 10 galvanized wire is stretched along the row, to 

 which the canes are tied. It would be a saving of labor 

 if a wire is stretched either side of the row, as then no 

 tying will be required. As soon as the crop has been 

 gathered, and the old canes are dead, they should be re- 



225. Suckers of red raspberries. 



moved, and at the same time all of the surplus new 

 shoots should be cut away. From four to five good canes 

 will be sufficient for each hill, while in rows the number 

 may be from two to three in each foot. 



If it is desired to obtain new plants, the ends of the 

 branches of the black varieties should be covered with 

 soil about the middle of August, when the tips are seen 

 to divide into several slender shoots, and to take root 

 (Fig. 224); these can be taken up and planted the follow- 

 ing spring. While the suckers that spring up from the 

 roots of red varieties (Fig. 225), may be used in propa- 

 gating them, it will be better to use plants grown from 

 root cuttings, as they will have much better roots. 



