528 THE F^UIT GARDEN. [Oct. 



Planting Raspberries. 



There are many varieties of the Rubus idteus, or European 

 raspberry, but the most preferable are the large common red, the 

 large common white, the red Antwerp, and the white Antwerp 

 raspberries. 



The smooth cane double-bearing raspberry is cultivated in some 

 places, as it produces one crop of fruit in June, and another in 

 October; but the fruit are few and small, which has occasioned its 

 being neglected. 



Of the Rubus occidentalis, or American raspberry, we have two 

 varieties, the black fruited, and the red fruited; the latter is pre- 

 ferable in taste and flavour to the black variety. 



Raspberries do not thrive well under the shade of trees, nor in 

 such situations are their fruit well flavoured; therefore they should 

 be planted in a detached airy piece of ground, naturally good, or 

 artificially made so. As to the choice of plants and method of 

 planting them, I refer you to page 221. 



Such as you plant between the middle and latter end of this 

 month, will make new roots before winter, and produce some good 

 fruit next season; but in the year following they will bear plenti- 

 fully. 



Dressing and Pruning Raspberries. 



When your new plantations are finished, and all the stout, strag- 

 gling suckers taken away for that purpose, dig the ground of the 

 old standing plantations carefully, clearing out by the roots the 

 remaining useless and scattered suckers, leaving an ample supply 

 of the best shoots lor pruning. 



In the middle and eastern states, I would not recommend the 

 pruning of raspberries before spring; for by deferring that work to 

 the latter end of February or beginning of March, there will be a 

 greater chance of the shoots not being injured by frost; and more- 

 over, you can then make choice of such as received the least injury. 

 But in the southern states they may be pruned now with safety; 

 for the method see page 1 38. 



It is necessary to observe that the shoots which had borne fruit 

 last summer, must be cut down to the ground either now or in the 

 spring, as they will never bear again, and that it is from the shoots 

 of the present season, immediately rising from the roots, that you 

 are to expect fruit in the ensuing year. 



The Antwerp raspberries being somewhat more tender and sub- 

 ject to be injured by frost than the common kind-, it will be of con- 

 siderable advantage to protect them therefrom in the manner di- 

 rected next month. 



Propagating Fruit Trees by Layers and Suckers. 

 The young shoots of mulberries, figs, filberts, codlins, vines, &c. 



