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SUCCESS WITH SMALL FRUITS. 



set out in spring, the greater the probabiHty that it will 

 receive a check, from v\'hich it will never recover. 



I have often planted in May and June, successfully, by 

 taking up the young suckers when from six inches to a foot 

 high, and setting them where they are to grow. Immediately 

 on taking them up, I cut them back so that only one or two 

 inches of the green cane is left, and thus the roots are not 

 taxed to sustain wood and foliage beyond their power. This 

 can often be done to advantage, when the plants are on 

 one's own place, and in moist, cloudy weather. My prefer- 

 ence, however, is to plant the latter part of October and 

 through November, in well-prepared and enriched land. 

 The holes are made quite deep and large, and the bottom 

 filled with good surface soil. If possible, before planting, 

 plow and cross-plow deeply, and have a subsoiler follow in 



Winter Protection of newly set Plants. 



each furrow. It should be remembered that we are prepar- 

 ing for a crop which may occupy the land for ten or fifteen 

 years, and plants will suffer from every drought if set imme- 

 diately on a hard subsoil. On heavy land, I set the plants one 

 inch deeper than they were before ; on light soils two or three 

 inches deeper. I cut the canes off six inches above the 

 surface (see Fig. C), for leaving long canes is often ruinous, 

 and a plant is frequently two or three years in recovering 



