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few and small. They are entirely free from mildew, and are clean, 

 bright, and beautiful. The Columbus, a New York variety, is 

 large and of good quality and resists mildew well. 



THE MULBERRY 



Nearly all varieties of the mulberry have been introduced in 

 California and grown rapidly and thriftily. Most attention has 

 been paid to those varieties most suitable for feeding silk-worms, 

 but the fruiting varieties are also grown here, though the fruit 

 has assumed no commercial importance. The mulberry is grown 

 readily from cuttings. The fruiting varieties thus far chiefly dis- 

 tributed are the Downing Everbearing, the Persian, the New 

 American, the Russian, and the Black Mulberry of Spain. All 

 these bear large and desirable fruit. The last named, introduced 

 by Felix Gillett, of Nevada City, is grown quite widely. The mul- 

 berry has a long season ; the Persian ripens in Tulare the last of 

 May and continuously thereafter until October. 



THE RASPBERRY 



The raspberry is another of the great small fruits of California. 

 It thrives over a great area of the State ; in fact, there are few situ- 

 ations in which it cannot be grown with at least a measure of suc- 

 cess if proper attention is given to retention of moisture in the 

 surface soil, and to giving the plants partial shade in the heated 

 valleys, and the cooler exposures in the foot-hills. The raspberry, 

 skillfully pruned and generously fed and cared for, is almost a con- 

 stant bearer, as has already been intimated. It is a continual de- 

 light in the home garden, and always brings a high average rate 

 in local and metropolitan markets. 



The culture of the raspberry is in the main like that of the black- 

 berry, as already described. The red varieties, which are the kinds 

 almost exclusively grown in this State, are propagated by suckers 

 and root cuttings like the blackberry, but the " black caps " are 

 propagated by layering the cane tips during the growing season, 

 and this method is also necessary with the Loganberry and other 

 blackberry-raspberry hybrids. Bending down a cane with its 

 branches and covering lightly with soil and with a light mulch to 

 retain moisture, will result in free rooting of the buried parts, and 

 one can sometimes secure a dozen plants by the layering of a single 

 cane with it laterals. 



The pruning of the raspberry is also by the renewal system, as 

 advised for the blackberry. The topping off of new canes, when 

 they reach about three feet in height, the subsequent pinching of 

 the laterals which are thus forced out, the resolute thinning out 

 of sprouts so that but three or four strong canes are allowed from 



