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growth the following spring than one-year-old plants 

 just set. They will also bear some fruit without 

 injury. In fact, a young plant taken up and carefully 

 reset when a few inches high is to be preferred, on the 

 whole, to a one-year-old plant which has had to be 

 shipped some distance from a nursery, and has been 

 planted in the spring of the same year. 



In the hot, dry climates of the West, some shade is 

 an advantage to these fruits, and if it can be secured 

 without so close proximity to trees that the moisture 

 and fertility is already sapped from the ground by 

 their roots, it is desirable to get it. Ordinarily this is 

 not an easy thing to do, and the injury is likely to be 

 as great as the benefit. 



POLLINATION 



The need of planting different varieties together to 

 insure proper fecundation of the blossoms has come to 

 be well recognized in orchard planting, but has not 

 been thought worth considering in planting bush -fruits. 

 It has been taken for granted that the varieties commonly 

 grown are self -fertile. Indications point to the con- 

 clusion that many of them are not fully so. I have 

 observed much evidence of imperfect pollination with 

 Early Cluster and Ancient Briton blackberry, Mayes 

 dewberry and Fontenay raspberry, when growing alone. 

 Others may be equally deficient. The Cuthbert bears 

 an abundance of pollen and is apparently fully self- 

 fertile. Its blossoming season is long and it is therefore 

 an excellent sort to plant with other reds. 



