294- FRUIT GARDEN DISPLAYED. 



horizontally to the efpalier, Hakes and wall, 

 5cz. 



/^fter planting the rafpberries, keep them 

 clean from weeds nil Summer, by hoeing the 

 ground between them occdiionally ; and per- 

 mit the fucceffional fupply of young Ihoois to 

 advance from each main root, in their full 

 growth. 



They, if flrong plants, will both produce a 

 moderate crop of good fruit the enfuing Sum- 

 mer, and proper fupplies of young items for 

 bearers the following year, but in the fecond 

 Summer will bear in full perf dion, and fur- 

 nilh plenty of fucceflional bearers ; and the 

 fame plants will continue feveral years of a 

 good prolific Hate, in the order before ex- 

 plained. 



The general culture of rafpberries confiih 

 of an annual pruning, neceffary every Winter, 

 to cut out the old decayed ftems, laft Summer's 

 bearers, and to thin, where too abundant, 

 the young fuccefSon fhoots, that are to bear 

 the fruit the enfuing feafon ; then to dig the 

 ground between the plants : and in Summer, 

 to hoe them clean from weeds, as before inti- 

 mated. And always let the production of 

 fucceflional young fhocts, rifmg immediately 

 from the main ftools, advance all Summer in 

 their full growth, and only, in that feafon, 

 to clear out any large ftragglers cafually ad- 

 vancing between the rows, &c. that they may 

 not incommode and keep the fun and air from 

 the prefent bearers, and their production of 



