258 TREATISE ON FRUIT TREES. 



Each seed contains a tiny seed so compressed that it's hardly noticeable while 

 eating the fruit. 



The receptacle, which enlarges in proportion to the fruit, occupies the center of it. 

 At maturity it detaches easily & remains very tightly fastened to the calyx. It sort of 

 bristles with tiny points that are fibers of the ovaries. 



II. Thorny RASPBERRY BUSH with white fruit. C.B.P. 

 RASPBERRY BUSH with white fruit 



This is a variety of the one above that differs only in the color of its fruit & 

 slightly less so in its scent. Other kinds of raspberry bushes serve as decoration for 

 gardens. 



CULTIVA TION. 



Raspberry bushes can be propagated by seed-planting, but it's easier & quicker to 

 do it with suckers that emerge only too abundantly from their roots. The bushes are 

 pulled up with their roots between mid-November and the beginning of March. They're 

 cut back to twelve or eighteen inches & planted two or three feet apart in rows that are 

 separated by four or five feet, or in staggered plantings that are farther apart, or in any 

 other preferred arrangement. 



This shrub is not deterred by any kind of soil. But it does better in slightly dry & 

 friable soil than in damp & compact soil. In Februaiy all of the canes from the previous 

 year are cut down to about half their length (eighteen to thirty-six inches as stated above) 

 All those that previously had borne fruit & almost none of which had survived beyond 

 their productive period are removed. 



