174 BIGGLE GARDEN BOOK 



Blackcap raspberries do not sucker from the 

 roots and are propagated differently. When black- 

 cap tips bend down near the ground toward autumn, 

 new plants can be easily started. Bend down and 

 bury each tip a few inches beneath the ground, hold- 

 ing it in place by pegs, a stone, or the weight of a 

 little heaped-up soil. Most of the tips, if not dis- 

 turbed, will take root and form nice plants by next 

 spring ; at which time the parent canes can be severed 

 a few inches from the new plants, and the latter can 

 then be dug up and set out wherever desired. 



Planting-distances, culture, etc. : Blackberries 

 for horse cultivation are usually set about eight feet 

 apart in rows, plants spaced about two feet (2,722 

 to the a,cre). Red raspberry rows, about six feet 

 apart, plants spaced about two feet (3,630 to the 

 acre). The plants, of both, sucker and run to- 

 gether in the row in a year of two, until there is a 

 continuous hedgerow about a foot wide (plants 

 which come up outside of this should be treated like 

 weeds). For small garden or hoe cultivation the 

 rows might be a little closer together. Blackcaps 

 fpr horse cultivation may be set in six-foot rows, 

 about two and one-half feet apart between plants; 

 or 5x5, and cultivated both ways if the rows are 

 straight in each direction (1,742 plants to the acre). 

 As blackcaps do not sucker, the hills will "stay put." 



As to the depth to set plants of raspberries and 

 blackberries, I shall simply say: Set them only a 

 trifle deeper than they were before digging. 



Soil for these berries should be moist, well 

 fertilized, loamy, well drained and deeply plowed. 

 Cultivation should begin in early spring and continue 

 (say at ten-day intervals) until about the middle of 

 August. A mulch at fruiting time is helpful and 



