PRUNING THE STRAWBERRY. 



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fruit. The berries are borne on the young spurs 

 arising from the buds, and, by bending over the canes 

 and tying them together, as seen in the figure, all 

 the buds will be encouraged to throw these spurs. 



One of the most beautiful as 

 well as successful methods of prun- 

 ing the blackberry is to pinch out 

 the terminal bud when the cane 

 has grown about two feet and one 

 half in height, when side branches 

 will be thrown out, on which the 

 fruit will be borne. 



Tlie Strawberry. In this country 

 the cultivation of the strawberry 

 is beginning to attract more atten- 

 tion than formerly, and various 

 plans of training them have been 

 proposed, to reduce the necessary 

 amount of labor. The old style 

 was to grow them in beds, and 

 renew them once in a few years; 

 but the expense of weeding them 

 was so great that it made fearful 

 inroads upon the profit. It was 

 soon ascertained that it was scarcely profitable to 

 allow them to bear more than one crop before re- 

 newal, when grown in beds. The runners of the 

 year previous are planted in the spring, cultivated 



