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ground and keeps it clean, but picking is inconvenient and 

 cultivation is more difficult. 



A second plan consists in training to an upright wire 

 trellis, after the manner of grapes. The young canes are 

 allowed to run on the ground, and are tied up to the 

 wires the following spring. This is a very satisfactory 

 method, although it admits of cultivation only one way. 



A most simple and satisfactory plan is the one which 

 was recommended by A. J. Cay wood as early as 1888. 1 

 Let his own words explain it: 



"I plant them as I do red raspberries, four feet apart 

 each way, cultivating both ways until the fore part of 

 June, when the renewals get too long to do so. We then 

 direct the renewals of each row along the bottoms of the 

 hills, and cultivate the other way as long as required, and 

 one man has done the directing of our patch in a day. 

 The old canes are taken from the stakes any time after 

 the fruit is off, before tying up in the spring. The re- 

 newals are left on the ground all winter, which is suf- 

 ficient protection here, but if it is necessary to protect 

 them in colder regions, their prostrate position facilitates 

 the work. 



"In the spring, one draws the entire hill from under 

 the other hills in the row, and holds them to a stake, 

 while a boy ties them tightly. This can be done as rapidly 

 as tying red raspberries. I think my patch was the first 

 managed on this plan. We have tried the windrow sys- 

 tem, but like staking the plants better." 



If the old canes are cut away as soon as through fruit- 

 ing, the young ones can then be tied to the stake until 

 1 Popular Gardening, Vol. IV, p. 33. 



