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on the score of ill-health. While more delicate fruits 

 are fighting their way slowly along against insects and 

 fungi the Loganberry will be flinging itself riotously 

 and whole-heartedly over yards of arch, caring for nothing 

 a great, rough, reckless, rugged, spiny monster .of a 

 creeper, as full of primitive power and resolution as a 

 grizzly bear. 



The way to prune it is to attack the oldest shoots after 

 the fruit has been gathered, and cut or saw them out 

 close to the ground. The shoots do not bear the same year 

 that they are formed, but the following year. After they 

 have fruited they may be removed if there are plenty of 

 fresh ones to take their places, as there probably will be. 

 A plant bought in from a nursery may have several 

 fruiting shoots on it, and if there is plenty of root and the 

 soil is rich a couple of them may be left to bear ; but 

 if there is any scarcity of root, or if the soil is poor, it will 

 be prudent to sacrifice fruit the first year for the sake 

 of getting the plant well established and ensuring plenty of 

 fruit in future years. 



Although the Loganberry is so rampant a grower as to 

 spread quickly over a considerable area of arch, trellis 

 or fence it composes itself very satisfactorily to the 

 restriction of wire culture. For economy of labour in 

 tying growers prefer a low erection to a high one, and they 

 rarely put up more than four wires, which are a foot apart. 

 With this arrangement the person tying can get at all 

 the shoots conveniently without steps. The long growths 

 are not, of course, tied in perpendicularly, but are pulled 

 down to an obtuse angle and tied in diagonally. Anyone 

 so growing " Logans " on a large scale for profit would 

 find it advisable to set the plants twelve feet apart. Even 

 at that they will soon meet. If there are several wire 

 frames let them be seven feet apart. Thus grown the 



