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remarks apply to all small or " soft" fruits, and it 

 will not be necessary tc repeat them in treating of 

 different kinds. 



In sending Strawberries by post, each fruit 

 should be placed in a leaf and packed closely in 

 boxes two inches deep containing a layer of wad- 

 ding, the fruit to be covered with leaves for the lid 

 to rest on. 



RASPBERRIES. 



Raspberries are among the easiest of fruit to 

 cultivate, and the most certain to afford profitable 

 crops when justice is done to the plantations. 

 Except in the best managed gardens, Raspberry- 

 culture is practically ignored. It is true that 

 clumps or thickets are plentiful, but they practically 

 grow themselves, or if attention is bestowed on 

 them it is very far from being of the best kind. Of 

 what does it consist ? Allowing all the young 

 canes that push up from the roots to grow into a 

 crowded mass during the summer, one spoiling the 

 other ; then in winter, or more likely in spring, 

 cutting some of them out with the dead bearing 

 canes of last year, bundling the rest together; next, 

 with a spade, digging deeply between the rows for 



