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or cut labels at the ends and tops of the rows of the fe- 

 veral kinds. Here too may be planted Sorrel, Spiremint, 

 Chives, Pepper-niint, and all other perennial herbs for 

 the kitchen-ufe; the chief reafon for planting thefe in 

 this place, is, that when they are wanted early upon 

 hot-beds, or upon more foutherly expofures, they always 

 take more kindly, and are fooner fit for ufe. 



Planting and Management of Rafpberries. 



IN this part of the garden there may be a piece of ground 

 allotted for a plantation of Rafpberries, the beft kinds 

 of which are the red and the white fruiting kinds. There 

 is a fort with late red fruit, but it is not fuch a good 

 bearer as the two former forts. I have alfo heard of a 

 Rafpberry which bears two crops in the year, the firft in 

 yunci and the other in Oclohery the lafl: of which i^ 

 laid to be the beft; fome plants of thefe Rafpberries we 

 have in Scotland. 



Rafpberry plants are propagated from fuckers, which 

 their roots produce plentitully. When you defign to make 

 a full plantation of them, dig and trench your ground in 

 Augiiji preceding, and turn it over again in Oclober. The 

 foil fhould be a very good hazelly loam, not too wet, or 

 of ftiff clay, nor on the other lund light and fandy, but 

 of a middling confiflencc ; and I would choofe the ground 

 to be new. Lay it up in ridges to get the froft in win- 

 ter, which will mould it ; the beginning of March work 

 it again for planting, laying it as level as you can. When 

 you take off your fuckers from the mother-plants, take 

 them Hngly, one by one, and rwt in clumps ; prune 

 their fibres, and cut down their tops to a foot and a half 

 above the roots ; but be fure to preferve all the undei - 

 buds which you obferve ncirell their roots: thefe are the 

 rudiments of new fuckers, and flems for truit. 



Tiie planting Rafps too thick is a great fault, for 

 thereby their fruit becomes fmall and ill rafted ; for, as 



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