SECT. HI. OF A GARDEN. 



Raspberries may be set in plantations, in rows five 

 feet asunder allowing three feet between the plants. 

 Though these shrubs are best by themselves, yet 

 here and there by the walks a detached bunch may 

 be kept, or here and there one against a warm wall. 

 Between rows of raspberries planted at the above 

 distance, coleworts, early cabbages, cauliflowers, and 

 lettuces may be set, or spinach sowed in drills, the 

 raspberries having had their pruning and dressing 

 early in Autumn, for the purpose. Every year a 

 little short manure, dug in close about the roots, 

 (and deeper as the plantation gets older) will insure 

 fine fruit. Raspberries, though good and open be 

 best, are not very nice as to soil and situation ; but 

 the twice bearing sort should have a dry soil and warm 

 birth to forward the crops, that the last may be in 

 time : See that the plants to be set have good brushy 

 roots, and two or three eyes to each root near the 

 stems, for the next year's bearing. The smooth 

 wooded, or cane rasp, is to be preferred for a prin 

 cipal crop. 



Strawberries may be planted at the edges of bor- 

 ders arid quarters, either in single or double rows, 

 (rather the latter) for tha convenience of gathering, 

 and for ornament ; but the common and best way is, 

 in four feet beds, with eighteen inch or t\vo feet al- 

 leys, on which beds may be five rows of the wood, 

 and Alpine, four of the scarlet and pine-apple, three 

 of the Carolina, and two of the Chili ; setting the 

 plants at the same distance in the rows, as the rows 

 are from one another in what is called the quincunx 

 order. In a good, cool, loamy soil, which suits them 

 best, a little more distance may be allowed the four 

 first sorts; and in quite a dry light soil, somewhat 

 less, that they may shade one another the better from 

 drought. 



The best situation for strawberries is an open and 



