BUSH FRUIT PRODUCTION 



is driven solidly into the ground beside each 

 plant, extending about five feet above ground, 

 and the canes are gathered together and 

 wound around the stake. The canes are tied 

 at the top and once or twice lower down. 



Cultivation is simplified when this system 

 is used and the berries are exposed and easy 

 to pick. 



A form of wire trellis that often is con- 

 venient is made by stretching a wire on posts. 

 It should be about three to four feet above the 

 ground, with posts every thirty or forty feet. 

 The canes are then tied to this wire. They 

 may be allowed to run along the wire or they 

 may be cut off above it. 



Pruning Dewberries 



Details of pruning will vary somewhat with 

 the climate and the training of the plants, but 

 the principles are fundamentally the same. 



The dewberry cane, like the canes of other 

 brambles, grows in one season, branches and 

 bears fruit in the second summer, then dies 

 and is cut out. When it is tied up in the spring 

 of the fruiting year it usually is shortened to 

 fit the support. Old canes may be taken out 

 in the fall or may be left until the spring 

 pruning season. 



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