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4. How are they propagated? 



5. How are raspberries raised from seed? From root cuttings? 

 From layers? 



6. What location and soil is best adapted to each class of rasp- 

 berries? 



7. How should the land be prepared for the raspberry? 



8. When should they be planted? 



9. How should the plants be selected? 



10. How far apart should the plants be set? 



11. How deep should raspberries be set? 



12. What cultivation is necessary for the raspberry? 



13. How much pruning and thinning is necessary the first year? 

 The second year, etc.? 



14. What mulching is best for the raspberry? 



15. How and when should it be applied? 



16. How can a good support be made for the canes? 



17. In what ways may the canes be winter protected? 



18. How are the canes laid down and covered? 



19. How are they taken up in the spring? 



20. What are the characteristics of the berries of the two classes? 



21. How are they picked and marketed? 



Blackberry and Dewberry. 



1. Into what groups may the blackberries be divided? 



2. What are the characteristics of each? 



3. How is the blackberry propagated? 



4. How is the dewberry propagated? 



i. What soils are best adapted to each? 



6. How is the blackberry planted and cultivated? 



7. What pruning does the blackberry require? 



The Cranberry. 



1. What are the characteristics of the high and low bush cran- 

 berries? 



2. How Is the trailing cranberry cultivated? 



3. Wliat is the best location for a cranberry bed? 



4. What soil is best adapted for the growing of cranberries? 

 6. How should the land be prepared? 



6. Why is sand important in the cranberry bog? 



7. By what means can the bog be drained? 



8. Why should the drainage and flowage be controlled? 



9. How should the flowage be controlled in the fall? 



10. What harm comes from freezing the plants in the Ice? 



11. How long should the water be kept in the bog in the spring? 



12. What care is necessary in selecting the plants? 



13. How are they propagated? 



14. When should the plants be set? Why? 



15. How should the beds be made? 



16. Wliat cultivation is necessary? 



17. How are cranberries picked? 



Juneberry, Buffalo Berry, Sand Cherry and Mulberry. 



1. Where Is the Dwarf Juneberry found most commonly? 



2. What are its characteristics? 



3. How are they propagated? 



4. What cultivation do they need? 



5. Wliat are the characteristics of the varieties most common- 

 ly cultivated? 



6. What is the distribution of the Sand Cherry? 



7. What location and soil is best adapted to them? 



8. What are the characteristics of the Sand Cherry? 



9. How are they propagated? 



3 How are they used in grafting? 



il. What is the Dwarf Rocky Mt. Cherry? 



