550 THE FRUIT GARDEN. [OCT. 



werp, Fastolf, Victoria, Knevitt's giant, and Dr. Brinckle's seed- 

 ling raspberries. 



The smooth cane double bearing raspberry is cultivated in some 

 places, as it produces one crop of fruit in June, and another in 

 October; but the fruit are few and small, which has occasioned its 

 being neglected. 



Of the Rubus occidentals, or American raspberry, we have two 

 varieties, the black fruited, and the red fruited; the latter is prefer- 

 able in taste and flavor to the black variety. , 



Raspberries do not thrive well under the shade of trees, nor in 

 such situations are their fruit well flavored ; therefore they should be 

 planted in a detached airy piece of ground, naturally good, or artifi- 

 cially made so. As to the choice of plants and method of planting 

 them, I refer you to page 231. 



Such as you plant between the middle and latter end of this month, 

 will make new roots before winter, and produce some good fruit next 

 season ; but in the year following they will bear plentifully. 



DRESSING AND PRUNING RASPBERRIES. 



When your new plantations are finished, and all the stout, strag- 

 gling suckers taken away for that purpose, dig the ground of the old 

 standing plantations carefully, clearing out by the roots the remain- 

 ing useless and scattered suckers, leaving an ample supply of the 

 best shoots for pruning. 



In the middle and eastern States, I would not recommend the 

 pruning of raspberries before spring ; for by deferring that work to 

 the latter end of February or beginning of March, there will be a 

 greater chance of the shoots not being injured by frost; and more- 

 over, you can then make choice of such as received the least injury. 

 But in the southern States they may be pruned now with safety ; for 

 the method see page 146. 



It is necessary to observe that the shoots which had borne fruit 

 last summer, must be cut down to the ground either now or in the 

 spring, as they will never bear again, and that it is from the shoots 

 of the present season, immediately rising from the roots, that you 

 are to expect fruit in the ensuing year. 



The Antwerp raspberries being somewhat more tender and subject 

 to be injured by frost than the common kinds, it will be of consider- 

 able advantage to protect them therefrom in the manner directed next 

 month. 



PROPAGATING FRUIT-TREES BY LAYERS AND SUCKERS. 



The young shoots of mulberries, figs, filberts, codlins, vines, &c., 

 may now be laid in the earth, as directed on page 300, and they will 

 be all well rooted by this time twelve months. 



Suckers may be taken off and planted from codlins, berberries, 

 filberts, &c., digging them up with good roots to each, and planting 

 the largest at once where they are to remain, and the rest into nur- 

 sery-rows. 



