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BUSH FRUITS IN THE HOME GARDEN 



Over-ripe or injured berries should be discarded. If this is done by 

 the picker it will avoid re-sorting of the fruit for marketing. The 

 pint baskets are commonly used to pick into. The quart baskets 

 may be used for the black and purple varieteies. 



Home Uses. — For home use raspberries should be used abun- 

 dantly in the fresh state, and the surplus if not marketable at good 

 prices should be made up into forms for use during the winter. 

 Both types of raspberries are excellent if canned by the cold-pack 



Fig. 183. — One-year-old raspberries grown by the hill system, supported by single stakes. 



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method. They may also be dried and saved without the use of cans. 

 They are also made into jams and jellies. 



Insect Enemies. — Cane borers are probably the most trouble- 

 some of the insect enemies of the raspberry. The eggs are laid by 

 the adult in the tips of the canes and the larvae when hatched will 

 soon cause the tips to droop. When this is noticed, pruning off 

 the tops will destroy them. Cut well below the drooping part 

 and burn prunings. Eggs and larvae in these tips are thus destroyed. 



