122 POMON A: QO, 
CHAP. XXII. 
Of RASBERRIES. 
ee oe a) JE have but three Kinds of Rasberries in England, viz. The 
@1 White, the Red, and the Purple : The Wood of the White 
ie ers ’9} and Red is of a bright Colour, and almoft {mooth; but that 
of mm Purple is a dark Brown, and very thick fet with (mall prickly 
Excrefcences. 
THEY are all propagated by Suckers, = {pontaneoutly a up 
in the Summer, and are planted in the Autumn following : They in ge= 
neral delight in clean frefh Land, being planted in Rows about eighteen 
Inches apart, and each Row four Feet afunder. Some Gardeners, for 
want of knowing the Nature of the Fruit, let them sun yery thick together 
in the Rows, wed is never fo well as when they are kept to fingle 
Roots. 3 
WHEN we prune the Roots of Rasberries at the Time of 
Planting, we fhould carefully preferve their young Buds, which fhoot 
out exactly even with the Surface of the Ground, for it is from thofe 
Buds that the next Branches are produc’d, and when they are broken 
off before planting, they never live longer than the firft Summer after 
planting : For as foon as the Branches of all the feveral Kinds have 
= ay their Fruits, they immediately perifh. 
BUT that we may not by thefe annual Decays, be holly defticute 
of Wood for further Supplies, Nature does therefore produce young vi- 
gorous Shoots, whilft thofe of the laft Year are bringing their Fruits to 
Maturity ; 
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