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TILLAGE 



Nothing special need be said concerning the tillage 

 of the dewberry. Some growers even advise letting 

 them grow entirely without cultivation or care. This 

 method can hardly recommend itself for any systematic 

 culture for profit, unless it be on some rough, unculti- 

 vable and otherwise unutilized piece of ground. As 

 the season advances, the young canes spread out over 

 the ground and tend to interfere with cultivation. It 

 is only necessary to direct them along the row, like 

 strawberry runners, however, and continue the cultiva- 

 tion but one w^ay, if the plants are so set as to admit 

 of cultivation both ways earlier. 



PRUNING AND TRAINING 



Very little pruning is required. Simply to shorten 

 the canes when they are tied up in spring, if too long, 

 is all that is necessary, unless there is a tendency to 

 produce too many canes, when all but four or five 

 should be removed. With any careful system of culti- 

 vation some method of training is essential. Various 

 plans have been recommended from time to time, only 

 part of which it wdll be necessary to mention here. 



One plan consists of a low, flat trellis, of greater or 

 less width, eight or ten inches from the ground, on 

 which the plants are allowed to run. This may be a 

 narrow one of wire, made by driving stakes into the 

 ground, ten or twelve feet apart, and nailing strips of 

 boards a foot or more long, across the top. On these 



