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tiIGGI,K BERRY BOOK. 



altogether too expensive to use wires or supports of 

 any kind when growing raspberries for market. It is 

 better to stimulate sturdy growth by the use of fer- 

 tilizers, by good culture and by heading back the 

 young shoots. 



The diseases which affect raspberries and blackber- 

 ries are far better prevented than cured, and the best 



of all preventives is 

 cleanliness. In the 

 case of these small 

 fruits cleanliness 

 consists in the re- 

 moval of all old 

 wood and all rub- 

 bish from the rows. 

 Such stuff should 

 be burned. Fire 

 will effectually de- 

 stroy the spores or 

 germs of diseases. 



New plantations 

 of raspberries 

 should be set out in 

 the earliest spring, 

 as the shoots begin 

 to grow with the first warm, sunshiny weather. 



To save hand labor these times, when efficient help 

 is so scarce, after setting blackberries and raspberries 

 (providing tops are cut back near to roots), run over 

 rows right after setting with a potato coverer, and in 

 about two or three weeks drag down the ridges thus 

 made thoroughly, and the plants will get way ahead 

 of weeds and grass. 



A GREGG BOUQUET 



