THE RASPBERRY. 



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lan the spruce, a» it is more common and easily ob- 

 inable — varyiiig from $15 to $50 per 1,000. 

 Last autumn we visited the grounds of J. P. 

 DsuiNO, Esq., of Cambridge, near Boston, \Yhere we 

 w the largest and finest hedges of J\'onvay Spruce 

 id Jf'hite Cedar there is in this country. It was 

 uly a beautiful sight to ride through the avenues, 

 ,ed as they were by these evergreens for miles in 

 tent. Some had been planted, we were informed 

 out eight years, and had attained about thirty feet 

 height, presenting to the passer-by, an insurmount- 

 le wall of green. 



Mr. CusHixo is so well pleased with the results 

 it he planted more than a mile in extent last spring. 

 These trees, with their naked hmbs and trunks, 

 not be expected to be as effectual as evergreen 

 33, whose foliage remains on during winter. 



THE RASFBEBSY. 



!'his delicious fruit which comes in most season- 

 s' after the period for Strawberries, is our especial 

 )rite. A few years since the price of the common 

 I black Baspberry was only from six to eight cents 

 quart. Last season a fruit dealer in our city 

 Id have been glad to contract for 100 quarts per 

 at double those rates. No one' should depend 

 the straggling plants along the road side, or 

 ind the stumps of his fields for a supply. But 

 of our small summer fruits require so little atten- 

 and none will better repay care in culture. We 

 ! three kinds of wild Raspberries transplanted 

 . the woods a few years since. From one stool 

 le black variety we have gathered more than a 

 t of berries, during each of the past two sea^ 

 The common red grows very thriftily, but if 

 berries are allowed to ripen thoroughly on the 

 , before they can be gathered. Another kind, a 

 tlirifty and hardy variety, bears a perfect hemis- 

 ical berry, red, very small seeds with a fleshy 



■ the cultivated varieties in this latitude, we pre- 

 le red and white Antwerp. The white, with us 

 i more tender plant, but the better bearer. Per- 

 we can not better illustrate the method of suc- 

 ul cultivation than to allude briefly to our prac- 

 ivhen commencing their cultivation. The plants 

 ; obtained at the proper time, which is before 

 3af-buds open, were carefully dug up (not pulled 

 vith a spade — as much earth as possible was left 

 hed to their roots, and then conveyed gently 

 :. The rows were trenched two spades in depth. 



to a width of from twelve to sixteen inches. The 

 plants were then placed in holes left by taking out 

 a spadeful of earth — the roots laid out in all difec- 

 tions by the hand — the earth drawn up closely 

 aronnd the roots — care being taken that no unfilled 

 cavities should admit air to the roots. AVhen plant- 

 ed they were then tied firmly to stakes — and left to 

 grow, the ground kept free of weeds. A part of the 

 plants wore pruned to a stem about two feet in length, 

 while the remainder were left untouched. Those 

 well pruned came on much faster than the unpruned. 

 We were rewarded with a few berries the same sea- 

 son. The ensuing winter the tops of nearly every 

 plant were killed — in spring the dead portions of the 

 limbs were cut off, and they were left to grow as 

 they might. By the way, we should say, that the 

 soil was a sandy loam of about two and a half feet 

 in depth, underlaid with a reddish clay hard pan of 

 about four feet in thickness, and had been pastured 

 as public commons for more than twenty years. They 

 yielded a fair return of fruit, but not as much as 

 seemed a fair equivalent for labor bestowed in culti- 

 vation 



In December of the same year we directed a bar- 

 rel of the sweepings of the henery — (which receives a 

 sprinkling of plaster of Paris every week or so) to 

 be apphed to all the trees and shrubs in the garden. 

 Each stool of Raspberries had about half a spadeful 

 of this mixture of guano plaster, and loam, applied 

 to its roots. The ensuing spring showed its good 

 effects, the leaves were of a much deeper green — the 

 shorts were more vigorous, and the whole appear- 

 ance of the plants strikingly changed. 



In a word, the bushes were loaded with the finest, 

 fairest berries we had ever seen, and from three rows 

 of plants in a space of nine by eighteen feet, we ga- 

 thered from one to three quarts daily. Had it not 

 been for the extreme drouth of the season, we doubt 

 not the yield of fruit would have been doubled. 



We made the rows three and a half feet apart — it 

 would have been much better to have allowed five 

 feet of space between rows. We placed the plants 

 two feet apart in the rows — three feet would have 

 been better. 



The best mixture for filling up wounds in trees is 

 made with cow-dung one bushel, old lime-rubbish half 

 a bushel, wood-ashes half a bushel, and a little river- 

 sand, well worked together by spade, or beaten untQ 

 it is of the consistence of fresh plaster, such as is 

 used for ceiling rooms. 



Many are great because their dissociates are smalL 



