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from cuttings. The suckers of this year, are 

 planted out in rows, six feet apart, and the plant:? 

 two apart in the rows. This is done in the fall 

 or early in the spring. At the time of planting 

 they should be cut down to within a foot of the 

 ground. They will bear a little, and they will 

 send out several suckers which will bear the next 

 year. About four is enough to leave, and those 

 of the strongest. These should be cut off in the 

 fall or early in the spring, to within four feet of 

 th e ground, and should be tied to a small stake 

 A straight branch of Locust is best, and then the 

 stake lasts a life-time at least, let the life be as 

 long as it may. The next year more suckers 

 come up, which are treated m the same way. 

 Fifty clumps are enough, if well managed. There 

 are white and red, some like one best and some 

 the other. To have them fine, you must dig in 

 manure in the Autumn, and keep the ground 

 clean during summer by hoeing. -I have tried to 

 dry the fruit ; but it lost its flavour. Rasberry 

 Jam is a deep red sugar ; and rasberry-wine is 

 red brandy, rum, or whiskey ; neither having the 

 taste of the fruit. To eat cherries, preserved in 

 spirits, is only an apology, and a very poor and 

 mean one, for dram-drinking ; a practice which 

 every man ought to avoid, and the very thought 

 of giving way to which ought to make the cheek 

 of a woman redden with shame. 



323. STRAWBERRY. This plant is a na- 

 tive of the fields and woods here, as it is in Eu- 

 rope. There are many sorts, and all are improv- 

 ed by cultivation. The Scarlet, the Alfiine, the 

 Turkey, the Haul-bois, or high-stalked, and 

 niany others, some of which are white, and some 



