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finest fruits will be found, not at the top of the 

 bushes, but towards the bottom, where in the ordi- 

 nary course of pruning none is produced. 



Lines of Raspberries. Training the canes, 

 either as shown for Gooseberries (page 53) upright, 

 or slantingly to wires or cross laths is unquestion- 

 ably good. Hedges of Easpberries five feet high 

 on this system are highly productive, and if several 

 rows are grown together the distance between them 

 should equal, or somewhat exceed, the height of 

 the canes. Plant them six inches asunder in the 

 row, cut them down as advised, and when estab- 

 lished, shorten every alternate cane to the first 

 wire, and the others nine inches above the second, 

 which may be 4Jr or 5 feet from the ground. 



Self-supporting Canes. More Raspberries 

 are grown without supports than with them on 

 fruit farms and in market gardens, also as under- 

 growth in orchards. For this cheap method of 

 culture a short, sturdy-growing variety should be 

 chosen, and there is none to surpass, if equal, the 

 true Carter's Prolific, raised by Mr. John Carter, 

 of Keighley, and more of this is grown in that 

 way than of all others put together. As pre- 

 viously mentioned, a broad line of Raspberries 

 without stakes, laths, or wires, round Mr. W. 

 Jacob's small allotment at Petworth, gave upwards 



