424 AMERICAN HOME GARDEN. 



The more moderate-groTving kinds of raspberries are often 

 cultivated by tying up ttie canes of eaclr plant to a single 

 stake, or to a bar fastened along the row of stakes for this pur- 

 pose ; but the stronger growers, of -which the red-cane named 

 above is the most rampant, are usually inclosed hj rmming a 

 single bar along each side of the row, with posts at about six 

 feet apart, with cross braces at proper intervals, making a 

 frame about two feet wide. Within such a frame the bearing 

 shoots and the yoimg strong canes of the cm'rent season be- 

 come mingled and thickened, and the difficulty of gathering 

 the fruit and the labor of winter priming are much increased. 



Let this frame be made three feet wide instead of two ; nail 

 two braces, an inch and a half or two inches apart, upon each 

 pair of posts, putting two such upon each side of every third 

 pair. Let the narrow space between the braces range at a lev- 

 el from end to end of the frame ; into this space, and close upon 

 one side of the frame, introduce a strip of plank two or three 

 inches wide, put a pin through it at each end near to the brace 

 to prevent it slipping out, and fit it so at the third pair of 

 posts that its end will not interfere with the next length. 

 Put in similar strips tlu-oughout, and j-ou have a sliding bar 

 along your frame ready for use. Suppose your canes trimmed 

 for the spring of 1858, with the slide-bar resting to the west- 

 ward of them ; you move it across to the eastward, pressing the 

 canes before it till they are near or rest upon the outer bar ; 

 allowing them such "play" as you may think they require, 

 fasten your sliding bar for the season by pinning it to or notch- 

 ing it into the braces, or in any way you find convenient , and if 

 the canes do not spread evenly along their allotted space, form 

 a sort of rack for them by tacking short pieces of lath here and 

 there. When the young canes shoot up from the root, they 

 will natm-ally grow upright and apart from the bearing shoots ; 

 but if they should incline toward them, a small strip of boai-d, 

 without sharp edges, or a light bean-pole laid between them 

 and resting its weight upon both, will sway them a little in 

 the opposite direction, and leave your fruit entirely within 

 reach and at command, and prepare the whole mass of old cane 

 for being easily cut away at the next prmring. It remains 



