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trees, which, as they are just advancing in bud, will now be of great 

 service, in promoting a plentiful production of large good fruit. 



For the best methods of propagating gooseberries and currants, see 

 the work of the Nursery for this month. 



PRUNING AND PLANTING RASPBERRIES. 



Prune raspberries, when not done before, agreeably to the direc- 

 tions given last month, page 146 ; let this be done as early in the 

 month as possible. 



You may now make new plantations of raspberries, where wanted. 

 Observe that the young shoots or suckers, which arise every summer 

 from the old roots, are to be chosen for this purpose. These should 

 be planted in good ground, and in an open situation ; if you dig in 

 some rotten manure, it will be of considerable service to the plants, 

 and promote a production of large fruit. 



In choosing the plants for this plantation, observe to select the 

 outward young suckers of strong and robust growth, all of last sum- 

 mer's production, not less than two feet, but the more eligible if 

 from three to five feet long, with strength in proportion digging 

 them up with full roots, preferring those with roots the most fibrous, 

 for this is material in those plants j and, as sometimes one, two, or 

 more buds appear, formed on the root near the bottom of the stem, 

 for next summer's shoots, such plants are particularly to be chosen, 

 if to be had. 



Fig. 21. 



Fastolf. 



