SMALL FRUITS 217 



Various systems of planting are used with 

 raspberries, depending upon the variety and 

 upon accepted practice in various districts. 

 Red sorts are often grown in "hills," 

 confining the plant to its location by 

 removing excess suckers and tying the fruit- 

 ing canes to a stake. The black varieties are 

 more often grown in rows eight feet apart and 

 with the plants three feet apart in the row. 

 Sometimes the plants are allowed to support 

 their own weight and in other districts they are 

 tied to wires in various ways. In fact the 

 methods of training raspberry plants exceed 

 in number those used for training grape-vines, 

 each section developing its own pet method. 

 Where the canes are pinched back to a height 

 of not more than three feet and the lateral 

 branches are not allowed to grow too long, the 

 plants of the black varieties will usually need 

 no support. The same may be said of the red 

 varieties although it is often more convenient 

 to tie them to a trellis of some kind. 



In nearly all other respects the directions 

 given for growing blackberries will apply as 

 well to their cousins, the raspberries. They 

 are subject to the same diseases except that the 

 anthracnose is much more severe on the black 

 raspberries than on any of the other members 

 of the berry tribe. 



The Cumberland, Kansas, Plum Farmer and 



