IN MY LADY'S GARDEN 



of three from the alternate plants in convenient arches in 

 November. No spade must ever be used between the plants 

 of any kind of rubus, shallow hoeing and hand weeding 

 only being allowed, for any injury to the surface roots 

 will result in a sucker which will tend to destroy the 

 strength of the fruiting plants. Too many plantations 

 of raspberries are thus made useless, for it is most difficult 

 to persuade the ordinary gardener (who judges only by his 

 eye) that the soil is one mass of rootlets, to which the 

 "good digging" which he considers desirable for every 

 portion of the garden is absolute destruction. 



Another point is this that the annual mulch which 

 all the various rubi require must be laid down in spring, 

 either in March or April, at the time when growth 

 begins and the rootlets awake from their winter sleep, these 

 needing ample sustenance for their summer growths and 

 to swell their fruit. Manure laid down in autumn is almost 

 useless for these purposes (having been long ago washed far 

 out of reach before the time comes in which it is most 

 required), and the mulch should be spread between the 

 rows of plants, not piled up at their collars, where manure 

 is not needed, for they feed mostly at the terminal points 

 of the younger rootlets, these naturally spreading out widely. 

 Loganberries are propagated by layering the ends of the 

 new growths in the autumn, when a young plant will start 

 in spring from each covered " eye" ; wineberries, too, form 

 young plants from the pegged down points of the new 

 growths, as well as from seed, but raspberries are increased 

 by suckers only. 



The latest of the rubus family to ripen is the straw- 

 berry-raspberry (Rubus sorbifolius), which continues to 

 flower and to produce its fruit to the end of October. 

 There has been a good deal of misconception about this 

 plant, probably on account of its misleading name, for it 

 has nothing whatever to do with the strawberry, and is a 

 species of rubus (the raspberry family) from Japan and 

 the Himalayas, which was introduced into our gardens by 

 Messrs. Kelway, of Langport, a few years ago. It is a 



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