462 Raspberries. 



may become well established before they are required to supply 

 nourishment for long tops of green foliage. Carrots or potatoes 

 may, with advantage, be grown between the rows the first year, 

 after which the raspberries will require the whole space. Stir the 

 ground frequently with horse and cultivator, to keep down grass 

 and weeds, being careful during the warm, dry weather not to dis- 

 turb the small roots feeding near the surface, by deep culture near 

 to the plants. The raspberries should be carefully picked in small 

 baskets not larger than pints, better less. Both baskets and crates 

 should be ventilated, so as to allow the circulation of air to absorb 

 the heat and moisture, as they will bear transportation to market 

 much better when cool and dry." 



Good raspberry plantations will yield at the rate of fifty or sixty, 

 and sometimes a hundred bushels per acre. 



PROPAGATING BY SEED, 



To produce new varieties, is easily performed by washing the ripe 

 seed from the pulp, mixing with damp sand, and sowing in autumn 

 in fine soil, about half an inch deep, covering till early spring with 

 a moderate coat of leaves or litter. They will produce young 

 plants which may be taken up and heeled-in late in autumn, and 

 set out the second spring, after cutting down closely. The 

 second and third year they will begin to bear and to exhibit the 

 characteristics of the new sorts. 



RULES FOR THE CULTURE OF RASPBERRIES. 



1. Any good strong mellow soil, that will raise good corn, and 



which has been deeply pulverized, will raise good raspberries. 



2. Set the plants in rows that will admit of free cultivating, say 



five or six feet one way and two or three feet the other. 



3. For black-caps, pinch back early, or when the young canes 



are about two feet high, to keep the bushes snug and compact, 

 and to obviate staking. 



4. As the canes grow in one season and bear the next, cut the 



bearing canes away as soon as they drop their leaves, or never 

 defer the work later than early the succeeding spring. 



5. Suckering sorts, to bear well, must have the suckers hoed away 



when they first appear above ground, or be treated like weeds. 



6. Increase the crop by clean mellow culture, and if practicable, 



by mulching for winter as well as for summer. 



