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slight cost. The vast crops of the Hudson River Antwerp were raised 

 from fields covered every fall. In the garden, I do not consider the 

 labor worth naming in comparison with the advantages secured. Those 

 who find time to carefully cover their cabbages and gather turnips should 

 not talk of the trouble of protecting a row of delicious Herstine raspberries. 

 Still, Nature is very indulgent to the lazy, and has given us as fine a 

 raspberry as the Cuthbert, which, thus far with but few exceptions, has 

 endured our Northern winters. In November, I have the labor of 

 covering performed in the following simple way : B is a hill with canes 

 untrimmed. C, the canes have been shortened one- third my rule 

 in pruning. After trimming, the canes are ready to be laid down, and they 



should all be bent one way. 

 To turn them sharply over 

 and cover them with earth, 

 would cause many of the 



Storage Ground for Raspberries, Currants, etc. 



stronger ones to break just above the root, so I have 

 a shovelful of soil thrown on one side of the hill, as 

 in Fig. C, and the canes bent over this little mound. 



They thus describe a curve, instead of lying at right angles on the surface, 

 with a weight of earth upon them. A boy holds the cane down, while a 

 man on either side of the row rapidly shovels the earth upon them. If 

 the work is to be done on a large scale, one or two shovelfuls will pin 

 the canes to the earth, and then, by throwing a furrow over them on both 

 sides with a plow, the labor is soon accomplished. It will be necessary to 

 follow the plow with a shovel, and increase the covering here and there. 

 In spring, as soon as hard frosts are over, the first week in April, in our 

 latitude, usually, begin at the end of the row toward which the 

 canes were bent, and with a fork throw and push the earth aside and 



