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Fig. 62. HOOP TRAIN- 

 ING. 



somewhat ideal system. The bearing canes are cut away 

 after the fruit is gathered, and the next spring the four 

 young canes shown in an upright position, are bent down 

 in the same manner as those of the previous year. 



Training within a hoop is a very pretty plan for small 

 gardens. This is done by driving two stakes, one on each 

 side of the stool, and about a foot 

 from it ; then take a common barrel 

 hoop and nail it to the stakes, as in 

 figure 62. The canes are trained up 

 within the hoop and tied to it at 

 regular distances apart, thereby sup- 

 porting the canes and preventing 

 them from being blown about by 

 the winds and injuring the fruit. 



There are many other very neat 

 and convenient systems of training 

 the Raspberry in use among amateur 

 cultivators, but those already named will give the reader a 

 very good idea of their general scope, besides suggesting 

 other modes, such as training upon walls, fences, along 

 the sides of walks or as a kind of a hedge, also planting and 

 training in a half shady situation, with a northern exposure 

 for a late crop, and in one of an opposite character for an 

 early one. 



So various are the changes that can be made in every 

 department of fruit-culture, that to give them all in detail 

 would require one or more large volumes for each species 

 in cultivation. 



DURATION OF PLANTS. 



The duration of a Raspberry plantation will depend 

 very much upon the variety cultivated, as well as upon the 

 nature of the soil and care given the plants. Ten to four- 

 teen years is about the average under good culture, but 

 sometimes they will remain productive for twenty years, 

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