64 RASPBERRIES 
of an alternation of the winter treatment—zi.e., chemicals 
one season and animal manures the next. 
In spring it is a matter of the greatest importance 
that raspberries be well mulched with short litter, so 
that soil moisture is conserved. If a light nitrate 
dressing is given directly growth commences, and the 
mulching is given a little later, but before the flowers 
commence to expand, then, if other details have been 
properly attended to, the cultivator will seldom need to 
do anything more than keep weeds down until the fruit 
is ready to pick. Watering, either with clear water or 
liquid manure, will serve to increase the size of the 
berries, and also to secure a longer season of fruitful- 
ness; but it is only in very dry seasons, and on light 
soils, that summer waterings are really necessary to 
obtain fair results. 
GATHERING AND MARKETING 
For exhibition or dessert purposes, it is found de- 
sirable somewhat to thin out the clusters in order to 
secure larger berries. Such fruits should be gathered 
with the foot-stalk or pedicel attached, as they then have 
a better appearance, and the stalk provides the necessary 
‘‘handle” to such a soft fruit. It is very probable that 
it would pay to grow raspberries for dessert, provided 
local markets were supplied; but the juicy nature of 
the fruit operates against the presentation in quantity, to 
the general markets, of dessert raspberries. 
For culinary purposes, the berries are pulled from off 
the central core, and are then quite ready for whatever 
purpose required. In market gardens they are not 
generally picked so carefully as in private gardens, conse- 
quently the purchaser has to pick out many a stalk and 
core in preparing the fruit for kitchen use. By far the 
largest quantity of the raspberries grown by the market 
