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called upon to throw out fruit-bearing sho6ts. The les- 

 sened expense of pruning is an added advantage secured 

 by this method of training. 



An exception to this plan may be advisable in case of 

 young and vigorous plantations, or with an unusually 

 rampant-growing variety. Young plants have not the 

 root development to start out so stocky a cane, and nat- 



Fig. 9. A raspberry bush well 

 trained. 



Fig. 10. A raspberry bush improperly 

 trained. 



urally produce a more slender and comparatively longer 

 growth. Allowing such main canes to grow uninterrupt- 

 edly, and cutting them back to the desired height the 

 following spring, may remove too much of the wood, and 

 leave only the weaker and poorly developed buds near the 

 base. For this reason some good growers find it an ad- 

 vantage to pinch back the plants the first one or two 

 years, but not after that. Whenever this is done, the 



