58 BOOK OF FRUITS. 



Although grape vines are generally pruned 

 in the Fall, which may be the best season fot 

 the foreign grape, we still, from our own ex- 

 perience with the Isabella, decidedly prefer the 

 Spring for this variety. Pruning vines in the 

 Spring is often objected to from fear of their 

 bleeding. This, however, rarely takes place,pro- 

 vided it is performed early in April,and the sec- 

 tion which is laid bare be presented to the sun's 

 rays, which will almost invariably close up 

 the sap vessels ; they should, therefore, be cut 

 from the outside, inward, in an oblique direc- 

 tion. 



RASPBERRIES. 



The white and red Antwerp are the two most 

 desirable sorts for cultivation ; they should 

 never be grown together in masses ; as the 

 red, being more inclined to wood, will event- 

 ually choke or injure the growth of the white. 

 The time to plant young sucker shoots, of last 

 summer, is early in Spring ; choose them 

 strong, about three or four feet growth, de- 

 tached with good roots, and prune the weak 

 top part ; plant them in rows four feet and a 

 half or five feet asunder by three feet, in the 

 rows ; prune old plantations, cutting out the 



