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rows; the only training—if it can be so-called—consisting 
in shortening the canes to render them self-supporting. 
Another method of training is to take half the canes 
from two neighbouring stools or hills, and bend or arch 
them towards each other, allowing the points to cross 
sufficiently to admit of their being tied firmly together 
with tarred twine. An improvement upon this system 
is made by driving a stake in midway between each 
pair of hills or stools, arching the canes as before, and 
securing them to the stake at a height of about three 
feet from the ground. 
Much success attends the practice of straining one 
row of stout wire on either side of a row of hills or 
stools, parallel with the row, two feet from it and three 
feet from the ground. To these wires the fruiting 
canes are tied, and the foliage will then be found to 
afford.a slight shade to the fruit, and the latter will be 
finer than if more fully exposed. This system and the 
two previously noted, all allow the new young canes to 
grow straight up without any impediment. ‘The system 
of parallel wires can also with advantage be adapted to 
raspberries growing close against a boundary fence, one 
wire being strained to supports placed two feet from the 
fence, and the canes tied to it. 
PRUNING 
The business of pruning must receive the grower’s 
attention not long after planting is done. When it is 
not at all necessary that the newly planted canes should 
bear fruit the following summer there is no difficulty in 
the matter, as pruning resolves itself into simply cutting 
the rods back to within six inches of the ground line 
some few weeks after planting, in any case not later 
than March. ‘This method admits of the formation of a 
