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essary for best success that the buniing shall be done quickly; 

 that is, the trash should be thoroughly dry, so that it will "go like 

 a flash.'' If the trash is somewhat moist, so that it will buru but 

 slowly, the roots and crowns of the plants will almost certainly be 

 killed. Sometimes it may be impracticable to get the trash suffi- 

 ciently dry to burn well. In such cases the material should be 

 raked from over the plants into a windrow between the rows, to be 

 burned, or it may be best to cart off a part if the coverhig is very 

 heavy. 



In Renewing Old Beds a common two-horse com cultivator 

 Avill be found a very satisfactory implement. A disc harrow with 

 the inner sections removed is also good. Either of these imple- 

 ments will do the work better in hard soil than the one-horse plow. 



Some Varieties of Strawberries produce too many plants 

 to be productive. In such cases they should be thinned by destroy- 

 ing all that start after the rows are well filled. The plants should 

 average about six inches apart each way in the rows. 



Varieties. — For the home garden beginners will find it better 

 to use some good bi-sexual kind alone, rather than phuit pistillate 

 sorts. For this purpose Beder Wood is very satisfactory, and it is 

 perhaps by far the best variety for beginners to start with. 



Beder Wood.— An extremely hardy, vigorous, productive 

 sort. Well adapted to the home garden, but rather too soft for 

 marketing at a considerable distance. However, it is probably the 

 most popular bi-sexual kind now grown. 



RASPBERRIES. 



Winter Protection.— It is a good plan to get all raspberry 

 plants laid down by the 20th of October, with enough earth to hold 

 them in place, but it is not necessary to put on the final covering 

 until the approach of hard freezing weather, when they may be 

 covered by plowing a furrow over them from each side with a 

 16-inch plow. The canes are more flexible before than after hard 

 freezing weather. 



In Selecting Plants those that have been transplanted once 

 before setting out permanently are much more certain to grow 

 well than ordinary one-year-old sets, but they are somewhat more 

 expensive. The uncertainty of the ordinary sets of the tip rooting 

 kinds makes "transplants" of this class especially desirable. 



Anthracnose can be held in check by the following treat- 

 ment: Spray the canes before they leaf out with thick Bordeaux 

 mixture, i. e., made of 5 lbs. lime, 5 lbs. sulphate of copper, and 25 

 gallons of water ; and again after the leaves have started with 



