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planting is carried out, and it is not desirable to hare the bush spreading. Many poi- 

 sons are deterred from setting this— one of the most profitable and- easily cultivated 

 fruits, from reading articles and books on Small Fruit culture, wherein the necessity 

 of stakes is laid down. Now, we affirm that if the Raspberry is trimmed, and grown 

 as we shall describe, there is no need whatever of their use. The great fault with 

 most growers is, that they allow the main stalk to grow its full bight, or at least much 

 longer than it should, and even if they do trim them, it is not done until the following 

 Winter or Spring. The true way is- to trim them while growing. By so doing and 

 checking the tops, the roots become larger and the tops branch out more. It is some- 

 tinres advisable, in Gabdeu Culture, where the bushes have but little room, to tie 

 them up close to stakes j or place two stakes, one on each side of the hill, and nail a 

 hoop between them, training the bush through the hoop. Or they can be set along 

 in a row, or by the fence, and posts three feet high set along side of , them, with a 

 strip nailed on top of the posts, and also about two feet from the ground, or by setting 

 the roots two or three feet apart, and never allowing them to grow over three feet in 

 height and two feet wide; they form a perfect hedge ; and on account of such close 

 pruning, they will hang literally loaded with the largest size fruit, and growing thus 

 they will.be a support to each other, and the strongest winds cannot damage them. 



How many farmers might load their tables with this delicious fruit, even if they do 

 nothing more than set 50 or 100 plants in their fence corners, mulch them well and 

 each winter cut out the old bearing wood, or what would be still better and cost them 

 but little trouble, have a few rows set out near the house in a lot set apart for pota- 

 toes, cabbage, &c— all to be worked out by a horse, as shown in our remarks to the 

 Fanners' Club, in the first part of this Work. 



We give below a very-good plan that may be of value to those who are favorable 

 to growing them to A supi'QBT, and would , say, where lumber is cheap, a single slat 

 nailed along on top of posts, two feet from the ground, would answer: "Our method, 

 has been 1 to set the: plants in rows, six feet apart one way, and from three to three and 

 a half the other, on good land which, if previously well manured, so much the better ; 

 though in cases where manure is scarce, good crops may be realized from ground in 

 an ordinary state of fertility ; but like most other crops, proper manuring will always 

 be found to pay well. 



"After the plants are set out, the ground is kept thoroughly cultivated, until pre- 

 vented by the running of the vines, when they should be no longer worked among, but 

 allowed to strike root,, (which they will readily do, if not disturbed,) in order to fur- 

 nish a future supply of plants. The second year after setting, we expect the plants, 

 if they have done well, to bear a full crop. 



. " Some cultivators manage to get along without, staking and tying up the vines, but 

 thus far we have not succeeded satisfactorily without supports of some kind ; especially 

 during the first crop, when the vines are low and trailing, we find that a larger amount 

 of fruit is obtamed, in better condition, and freer from dirt, when stakes are used. 

 Mulching, however; would operate to keep the berries clean ; but during the second 

 year's bearing, when the plants become loaded with foliage and fruit, the stools are 

 liable to be tipped over, or broken down by the violence of storms ; thus destroying, 

 perhaps, much fruit, and also obstructing the passage of the horse and cultivator. 



' ' We sometimes use stakes, and a single wire. We drive short stakes in the ground, 

 once in thirty, feet, saw them off two feet above the ground, and fasten one end of 

 the wire to a hub driven firmly in the earth. This wire is stretched the whole length 

 of the row, and fastened on top of the stakes by means of wire staples, the end bein^ 

 secured in the same manner as the first. The ends of the vines are then gathered up 

 and tied together in one plape on the wire, half-way between the stools, where, during 

 the gathering of the fruit, the growth of the canes is not interfered with. When the 

 new canes have reached a few inches above the wire, their growth is stopped by pinch- 

 ing off the ends, which operation causes them to branch just above the wires thus 

 giving them room to tie the stools to the wire below the branches, and allowing' them 

 to retain their natural position. These form the stools which are to bear the f uture 

 crop, and are allowed to finish their growth without further interruption. By the use 

 of wire, the first cost will be greater than when stakes alone are used ; but in the end 

 it will be found the cheaper method, as the wire will last many years, and mav be 

 moved as occasion requires. 



" In case the new canes which spring forth, and which are to bear the second vear's 

 crop, need t hinnin g, the weaker ones should be broken-out in early growth in order to 

 five those which remain a better chance. Allowing that the second»vear ! s crop is to 



