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numerous, they enfeeble the plant, and it soon becomes 

 worthless. The new ever-bearing variety throws up a 

 great profusion. All the weaker superfluous ones should 

 be carefully removed with a trowel early in the season, 

 say when they have attained five or six inches of growth. 

 In selecting such as are to be reserved, preference should 

 be given to those being nearest in the regular row of 

 plants. Some of the French authors recommend leaving 

 a hole ten or twelve inches deep around each plant at the 

 time of planting, to be filled up gradually, three or four 

 inches a year, with fresh earth, to promote the formation 

 of vigorous radical buds, at the collar of the root, as re- 

 commended for the fig. 



Manuring. A liberal dressing of well-decomposed 

 manure should be given them every fall, worked care- 

 fully in among the roots with the digging fork. "With 

 this treatment a bed will continue productive for seven 

 years at least. 



Training. Mr. Dubriel describes a very pretty and 

 simple method of training practised in France, and I had 

 the pleasure of seeing it carried into practice in the 

 Rouen Garden (fig. 129). 



FIG. 129. 

 French -lode of training the raspberry to stakes and ropes. 



The railing _Z?, is a narrow strip of board, or a small 

 pole, supported on upright stakes ; it is eighteen inches 

 from the row of plants, and three feet from the ground. 

 When the young bearing canes are pruned in the spring, , 



