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given to the bushes. By the second method, for a 

 small garden, the plants can be set in narrow rows, 

 1 foot apart in the row, where the work is to be 

 done by hand. I would recommend the rows to be 

 4 feet apart, the farther the better. Four or five 

 of the thriftiest canes are enough to allow grow and 

 mature each year. The fruit is grown on the two- 

 year-old wood. Cultivation is very important in 

 securing best results. 



" Though many people plant raspberries, giving 

 no cultivation or care afterward, expecting them 

 to bear well just the same, you can always tell the 

 successful grower by looking at his patch during 

 the picking season. His rows will be found 

 straight, well cultivated, free from weeds, with 

 plants not too thick in the row, not like the patch 

 of a careless neighbor at this time a thick mass of 

 canes and weeds." 



" We commenced growing berries about 15 years 

 ago," writes Martin H. Munger of Wyoming 

 county, New York. " We had put 26 acres of land, 

 planting at first two or three acres and gradually 

 increasing. At present we have 12 to 15 acres. 

 The varieties grown are black and red raspberries 

 and blackberries. Our soil is a deep, gravelly loam, 

 rather light and dry. We plant with potatoes, 

 marking 3 feet both ways, and setting the plants 

 6 feet each way, so that the cultivation during the 

 following years is always both ways, thereby sav- 

 ing much hand hoeing, and, we think, producing 

 finer fruit, although perhaps less in quantity. We 

 aim to cultivate nearly every week one way or the 

 other from early spring until about picking time, 

 after which we give one more good working and 

 then cut out old wood. We usually leave the red 

 raspberry brush without cutting until spring, as it 



