10 PEOFITABLE FRUIT-GROWING. 



crowd and spoil each other. Those not wanted 

 should be pulled up when six inches high (they 

 will grow if transplanted in showery weather), and 

 the remainder will be the stronger, sturdier, and 

 more fruitful. 



Autumn Help After the crops are gathered, 

 it is the custom to let the old canes, which have 

 produced the fruit, remain to die, and a very bad 

 custom it is. It is much better to remove them 

 promptly by severing them at the bottom and 

 drawing them carefully downwards, so as not to 

 break the leaves of the summer canes for next 

 year's fruiting, and the additional sun and air 

 admitted to these will, by ripening them, greatly 

 increase their productiveness. 



Winter Work. The sooner this is completed 

 after the leaves fall the better When the 

 canes are tied to stakes, six or seven of the 

 best and shortest jointed should be selected, 

 and instead of tying them all above the stakes 

 in the orthodox manner, and thus having fruit 

 at the top only, shorten two of the canes about 

 fifteen inches from the ground, two others at about 

 twice that height, and the remaining two or three 

 a foot or so above the top of the stakes in the 

 manner shewn in fig. 11, d, page 37. The result of 

 tins simple method of pruning is seen in the accom- 



