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BUSH-FRUITS 



and produce a good crop of fruit the following year. 

 Such a bush of the Cuthbert variety is shown in Fig. 

 11. An undesirable form of training is shown in 

 Fig. 12. 



AUTUMN FRUITING 



Certain varieties of raspberries possess a strong ten- 

 dency to bear fruit in autumn on wood of the present 



Fig. 11. Well trained. 



Fig. 12. Improperly trained. 



season's growth, and it is sometimes recommended to 

 take out the old canes in spring in order to induce 

 this habit. A single experiment was made at the Cor- 

 nell gardens to determine whether our common varie- 

 ties would yield to this treatment. Plants of Fontenay, 

 Cuthbert and Shaffer were mowed off with a scythe 

 in the spring, before the young canes started. The 



