92 THE BLACKBERRY. 







When thus favored, it will prolong its period of bear- 

 ing from four to six weeks. Usual good garden soil is 

 favorable for the blackberry, and it will bear being 

 made pretty rich with manures after the first year and 

 especially with muck or woods'-mould. It should be 

 transplanted as early in the spring as possible, or in 

 the fall, and especial care should be taken of its fibrous 

 roots and its whole general culture the first year, and 

 then it will grow, produce fruit, and propagate itself 

 rapidly. 



The canes which come up one season will bear 

 fruit the next and then die in the autumn, and the 

 dead branches must be carefully removed early every 

 spring, in order to make room for the new ones to 

 take their place, and this beautiful process of reproduc- 

 tion thus goes on ; so that a single plant set out in a 

 good free soil will send up two, three, or four plants, 

 and those will increase to a score or more the follow- 

 ing season if carefully pruned and kept clean. 



The ends of the canes should be shortened about 

 one quarter early in the spring, when the old decayed 

 ones are removed, and if the laterals are too long clip 

 them also. They usually require no support. ( 



TRANSPLANTING. 



Particular care, we think, is needed in transplanting 

 the blackberry. It should not be attempted late in the 

 spring, otherwise a great share of the plants will hardly 



