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at one of our recent winter meetings, who 

 described it as a most ornamental shrub for 

 the lawn ; and Mr. VanDeman, the chief of 

 the section of Pomology, the Department of 

 Agriculture of the United States, says it is 

 well worthy of a place in the family fruit 

 garden. Externally it resembles the huckle- 

 berry, changing as it ripens from a reddish 

 purple to a dark purple. In size it varies 

 from one-quarter to one-half an inch in 

 diameter, and its flavor is a mild sub-acid, 

 which is counted by many people as deli- 

 cious, especially when the fruit is eaten with 

 sugar and cream. It is said to be very good 

 in pies mixed with green gooseberries, the 

 sugar of the one counter-acting the acid of 

 the other. The plants are propagated by 

 suckers which are usually set two or three 

 feet apart in rows, and the rows eight feet 

 apart. The Juneberry belongs to the Rose 

 family, and there are several varieties varying 

 in habit of growth, from bushes to trees of 

 thirty or foity feet in height. Dr. Geo. Thur- 

 ber, speaking before the American Pomologi- 

 cal .Society, refers to it in the following terms : 

 " The fruit is borne in clusters like the cur- 

 rant, and ripens in June. I had two or three 

 bunches that fruited several years in succes- 

 sion. In spring they are a sheet of white, 

 and very ornamental. The fruit, which is 

 borne in great abundance, is, to my taste, 

 better than huckleberries. This species 

 varies widely in its wild state. I have 

 found the tall kind in fruit in Maine, but 

 one of those little bushes will bear as much 

 as half a dozen of the big ones." 



PROPAGATION OF BLACK CAP 

 RASPBERRIES. 



21. Please describe how to propagate 

 black raspberries by tips.— G. J. R. 



Fig. 29. 



The propagation of the Black Caps is very 

 simple, and any one who buys a few plants 

 may easily increase his stock to any extent. 

 Soon after fruiting season the ground should 

 be cultivated and made fine, and the tips of 

 the canes should be layered two or three 

 inches deep in a nearly perpendicular posi- 

 tion, as shown in Fig. No. 29. This can be 

 done very rapidly, and the rows should be 

 gone over two or three times in the season, 

 as the younger canes or branches reach the 

 ground. Mr. Chas. Green says that it is 

 possible in good rich soil to get 100 plants 

 from one, the first season planted, and that 

 a good man will put down from 1,000 to 

 4,000 tips per day. This is a high count, 

 but it shows how little the nurserymen 

 regard the difficulty of propagating Black 

 Caps. 



The following spring a shoot will start 

 from the layer very early, and the young 

 plant being furnished with an abundant sup- 

 ply of fibrous roots, may be easily trans- 

 planted. The important point is to keep it 

 from exposure to the sun and wind, which 

 would quickly destroy the life of the tender 

 rootlets. 



