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plants may be expected to yield three tons of fruit per 

 acre. There is now a considerable demand for it canned 

 in syrup. 



There are two points which the grower who puts up 

 wire frames should pay particular attention to : the 

 first to set his end posts so firmly that they cannot 

 budge an inch under the strain of the tightened wire, 

 the second to run the wire from a reel, and not attempt 

 to pay it out by hand. If the straining-post yields 

 ever so little, either from being flexible in itself or from 

 being set insecurely, the wire will slacken, and that is 

 undesirable. If the wire is run out by hand from its coil 

 it will turn on itself and form kinks. 



The Loganberry is propagated by tips, and plants 

 so raised will be in full fruit the third year. The tips 

 should not be cut off at the outset, but the canes should 

 be bent over to the ground, and pegged there with a few 

 inches of the tips protruding. When roots have formed 

 round the pegs, the canes can be cut through and restored 

 to their places, and the newly formed plants put out 

 where they are to grow. 



There is another hybrid fruit raised by crossing Rasp- 

 berry and Blackberry, and it is called the Mahdi. It 

 has not the tremendous vigour of the Loganberry, 

 but it is so far from being a weakling that it will soon 

 cover an arch. Its shoots more resemble those of a 

 Blackberry than those of the Loganberry, and as the 

 fruit is black it might be taken for a glorified Blackberry. 

 The fruit, however, is Raspberry-shaped. It is sweeter 

 than the Loganberry. The fruit is a little later than that 

 of the Raspberry, as, indeed, is that of the Loganberry. 



The success of the Loganberry has led to a good deal 

 of crossing between it and both Raspberries and Black- 

 ferries. Nurserymen are alive to the fact that if they could 



