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are early, medium, and late, and had best be selected by 

 local dealers. As soon as a cane has borne once, it should be 

 cut at the ground. Do not let too many new shoots start ; 

 they will starve each other. Raspberry canes should either 

 be tied to wires, or cut off at about two feet from the ground. 

 They will then send out side shoots, which the cane can sup- 

 port. If disease 

 gets into either 

 the crown or the 

 leaves, the sickly 

 plants should be 

 cut out. If the 

 whole bed is in- 

 fected, it should 

 be dug up, the 

 plants burned, 

 and new ones 

 planted in an- 

 other place. Do 

 not plant them 

 within a dozen 

 feet of wild 

 plants, for fear 

 of root disease. 

 Raspberry rows should be planted six feet apart, the plants 

 two feet apart in the rows. Treat black raspberries just 

 like the red. 



Blackberries are treated in almost every way like rasp- 

 berries, except that they should be in rows nine feet apart, 

 the plants three feet in the rows. They grow very freely, and 

 send up many shoots, most of which should be cut out. 



Currants are still another kind of plant, growing like a small 

 shrub, and treated in much the same way. Set them four 



FIG. 127. The larger gooseberries are worth 

 growing. 



