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CHAPTER XXX. 



On the Raspberry. 



THE Raspberry requires a deep light 

 loamy soil, moderately enriched with well 

 rotted manure. 



Suckers with good roots may be planted 

 early in October, so that they may strike 

 root before winter. If they are to be treated 

 as bushes, they may be planted in rows at 

 five feet apart, and four feet in the rows. It 

 is a good plan to train Raspberries against 

 a trellis as described for Gooseberries. In 

 planting let them be placed singly at ten 

 inches apart, and both sides of the trellis be 

 planted. 



The Raspberry requires a summer and 

 winter regulation. The first is about mid- 

 summer or a little later, in doing which, pull 

 up or cutjclean away to inside the soil, all 

 suckers, except about eighteen or twenty to 

 every bush, and to as many more as will be 

 wanted at the winter pruning against the 

 trellis. By doing this the fruit is improved 

 in size, and the shoots which are to bear 

 next year get well matured. Whatever 

 shoots are produced after this regulation let 



