THE RASPBERRY. 125 



covered by the acre along the Hudson. A man 

 and a boy would cover in an hour all that are 

 needed for a garden. 



After the first year the foreign varieties, like 

 all others, will send up too many sprouts, or 

 suckers. Unless new plants are wanted, these 

 should be treated as weeds, and only from three 

 to five young canes be left to grow in each hill. 

 This is a very important point, for too often the 

 raspberry-patch is neglected until it is a mass of 

 tangled bushes. Keep this simple principle in .' 

 mind : there is a given amount of root-power ; if 

 this cannot be expended in making young sprouts 

 all over the ground, it goes to produce a few 

 strong fruit-bearing canes in the hill. In other 

 words, you restrict the whole force of the plant to 

 the precise work required, the giving of berries. 

 As the original plants grow older, they will show 

 a constantly decreasing tendency to throw up new 

 shoots ; but as long as they continue to grow, let 

 only those survive which are designed to bear the 

 following season. 



The canes of cultivated raspberries are biennial. 

 A young and in most varieties a fruitless cane is 

 produced in one season; it bears in July the k 

 second year, and then its usefulness is over. It 

 will continue to live in a half-dying way until fall, 

 but it is a useless and unsightly life. I know that 



