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soil, after which time the cultivation may be stopped, ex- 

 cept for just enough to control the suckers which may 

 appear in the middle of the rows. Sweeps or square point- 

 ed shovels on the cultivator make the best tools to keep 

 the suckers cut out, and this work should not be neglected, 

 for unless the suckers are cut out as fast as they appear 

 the plantation will become a brier patch in a couple of 

 seasons and so badly tangled with the thorny canes as to. 



At 13a Is shown the 

 usual method of mak- 

 ing- root cuttings of 

 the blackberry; 13b 

 shows one of the 

 same cuttings after it 

 has started to grow. 



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make it difficult to get through to harvest the fruit. In 

 fact, the fruit from plantations which are not cultivated 

 and pruned is smaller and more seedy than from those 

 which are given good care. 



Pruning 



The canes of blackberries and other bramble fruits are 

 biennial; that is, they live but two years. On this account 

 it is necessary to cut out the old canes as soon as their 



