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seasons. Grand stools of bearing canes and a corresponding number of suecessional young 

 ones will be had in the fourth, if not the third year, and the amount of fruit produced 

 under good management in favourable seasons is enormous. A promising raspberry 

 stool is represented in Fig. 53, such as is produced by the method of culture advisod. 

 Easpberry training is inseparable from pruning. 1. Non-staking System. This 



Fig. 53. BEAKINO EABPBKEET STOOL AND STEONO STTCCESSIONAL CAHES. 



natural system of growing raspberries is extensively followed on fruit farms and in market 

 and cottage gardens. Varieties with sturdy self-supporting canes should 'be chosen, such as 

 the Barnet and Carter's Prolific. They may be also grown on the "hill " system three 

 plants in a triangle (Fig. 54, Z), or as single plants in rows. The canes are usually 

 shoi-tened to an average length of 3 feet, but some growers merely remove the weak and 



