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and deepen light and porous land with muck composts, rotted 

 leaves and sods, and use light and heating manures for cold, 

 heavy ground. 



Bone-dust, poudrette, etc., comp6sted with muck, sods and 

 leaves, make excellent manures in every case. Top dressings of 

 wood ashes are always good, but never fail to give the land deep 

 plowing, or, in the garden, trenching, as this prevents loss from 

 drouth. 



Plants and Planting. 



In stocking a new place, or in obtaining new varieties, plants 

 must be bought, and, as we have said before, it is always best to 

 purchase of trustworthy dealers. Most kinds propagate them- 

 selves rapidly, and a little later we will show how this process 

 can be hastened. In buying, insist upon being furnished With 

 young and well rooted plants. 



Raspberries may be set out to advantage both in fall and 

 spring. In our latitude and in most soils, I would prefer fall for 

 the red raspberries which are propagated by suckers, and spring 

 for the blackcap and purple cane varieties that are increased by 

 roots forming .at the tips of the canes. 



My plan with red raspberries has been to purchase or take- 

 up the plants and set them out in October or the first week in 

 November, if mild. Where the variety is very choice, I have 

 quite large holes dug to the depth of eighteen inches and the 

 bottom filled up with good surface soil. But in gardens and 

 where the ground has been deeply prepared, this is not necessary. 

 If I intend to cultivate them with horse power both ways, I mark 

 out the ground into squares of four feet and put two or three 

 plants at each corner, setting them in the ground one inch deeper 

 than they were before. At this distance and where two plants are 

 set in a hill, 5,444 are required for an acre. After I have fin- 

 ished planting, the ground is perfectly level, and in after culture 

 should be kept so. I then sprinkle over and around the hill a 

 shovel full or two of old rotted compost, which, leaching down 



