174 THE EA8PBEBRT. 



During the first season's growth after planting, the young canes 

 that come up from the root should be pinched off at the tip, with 

 the thumb and finger, as soon as they reach the height of four- 

 teen to eighteen inches, and any side shoots they may throw out 

 should be pinched in when they are a foot long. 



In the second summer more and stronger canes will come up 

 from the root. These may be allowed to grow until they are 

 twenty-four to thirty inches in length, when they should be 

 pinched-in, and the side branches that may be thrown out should 

 be stopped when they are from eighteen to twenty inches long. 

 It will usually be found that the main canes will require to be 

 pinohed-in some time in June, and the side branches early in 

 August j yet the cultivator will remember that this pruning is to 

 be done, not according to the abnanac, but when the canes have 

 reached the requisite length, be the month or day what it may. 

 If the plants are thoroughly pruned in this way, they will be 

 stocky and strong, capablo of standing upright, and keeping their 

 crop of fruit well above the ground, out of the dirt. During the 

 second season, the canes that grew the first summer will yield a 

 nice crop of fruit, as much as the plant ought to produce. As 

 soon as the fruit haa been gathered, the canes that produced it 

 should be cut off at the ground and removed. They are of no 

 further use; as the autumn comes on they will die, and by 

 removing them as soon as the fruit is gathered, more room, light 

 and air are given to the young canes that have come up during 

 the season, and that are to bear the fruit next year. And of 

 these young canes, if any of them should be weak and slender, 

 it is always advisable to cut them away also at this time, leaving 

 only those that are vigorous and capable of supporting the crop 

 of fruit. 



In the autumn a further supply of manure should be furnished, 

 and it may be here said, once for all, that this manuring should 

 be performed every fall, and that he who does it with a liberal 

 hand wiU be HberaUy rewarded in the quantity and quality of 

 the fruit; Besides enriching the soil, the surface just over the 



