66 THE CULTURE OF 



Directions for planting the Beds. 



spring, or before the commencement of dry 

 weather. 



Those who are anxious to obtain a good 

 supply of Raspberries the first summer, will 

 find great advantage from laying a coat or 

 covering of long green or wet straw, not sta- 

 ble or horse-litter, on the surface through- 

 out the bed, pressing it on the ground by 

 beating with a heavy three-tined fork, that 

 it remain not more than two inches thick ; 

 when cover the same with good common 

 earth about an inch, that the whole cover- 

 ing [be then not more than three inches 

 thick; by which, the piercing sharp and cut- 

 ting winds of spring, and the greatest heat of 

 the summer months will be most effectually 

 excluded from the roots. On this cover- 

 ing being applied in autumn, it will be pro- 

 perly settled before the spring, without 

 proving the smallest impediment to the 

 growth of suckers affording a future supply. 



