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Caps, are extensively cultivated for market where there is usually a good 

 demand for the fruit at remunerative prices. The Pinlt varieties are 

 grown largely and almost entirely for canning purposes Doth by the 



home people and those with large factories. 



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the lateral 



All are good in their natural 

 state for table use, and 

 when a dozen plants 

 of each are set in the gar- 

 den we can enjoy this de- 

 licious fruit for four to 

 five weeks. We should ar- 

 range our selection of 

 varieties to prolong the 

 season for fruit as much 

 as possible, not neglect- 

 ing that important consid- 

 eration of best quality 

 when the aim and pur- 

 pose is to supply our own 

 table. Prepare the ground 

 and manure it the same 

 as you would for straw- 

 berries; then make fur- 

 rows six feet apart and 

 set your plants in these 

 two feet apart, cnus form- 

 ing a continuous row of 

 fruiting, which gives one- 

 third more fruit than 

 could be had from the 

 quite generally abandon- 

 ed old hill system. Cut 

 back tne plants to within 

 six inches from the 

 ground. Set posts twenty 

 feet apart and run one 

 wire 3% feet from the 

 ground, and train your 

 fruiting cane to the wire. 

 This is the cheapest and 

 best method and is being 

 adopted now quite gener- 

 ally. The canes should 

 be pruned back to within 

 branches should be pruned 



five feet from the ground and 

 back to fifteen inches. 



The Bush System of growring Raspberries of all kinds is to plant 

 in furrows three feet apart. The plants should be trained in bush 

 form: this is done by Summer pruning or pinching back of the leader 

 and lateral branches. The leader or main branch should not be over 

 three and one-half feet from the ground; the lateral branches should be 

 started near the surface of the soil and should not be more than eighteen 

 inches in length. It requires considerable pincliing back during the 

 growing season to make a plant of this formation, but it is the only 

 pruning needed and the bush goes into Winter weather in good robust 

 condition. There is no necessity to use posts and wire or anything else 

 to trail to, when this method of growing is adopted, as the plants are 



