^ Raspberries 



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Prepare tlie ground tliorougiily by ploughing deeply 

 and manuring liberall3^ Well-rotted stable manure is 

 perhaps the best of all fertilizers, but ground bone is good. 

 In planting set the red, or upright growing, varieties 

 in rows six feat apart and the plants three feet dis- 

 tant in the row, requiring 2,420 plants per acre; or four 

 feet apart each way, if to be grown in hills. In the 

 garden, plant three feet apart each way and restrict to 

 hills, allowing but three or four canes to the hill. As 

 soon as planted, cut back the canes to six inches of the 

 ground. In field culture the cap varieties should be 

 planted in rows seven feet apart and three and a half 

 feet apart in the row; in the garden, plant four feet 

 apart each way. 



Keep the soil loose and free of weeds by frequent stir- 

 ring of the soil with horse harrow and with the hoe, 

 throughout the season; and permit only a single row of 

 suckers, or three or four to the hill, to remain for next 

 year's fruiting — treating all others as weeds. (It is 

 a common error to allow a mass of suckers to grow and 

 rob the fruiting canes and also the young canes needed 

 for the follow^ing year's crop.) 



Prune during winter or early spring, before the buds 

 have swollen, cutting the canes of the cap varieties in the 

 middle of the bend and the lateral back to six to ten inches. The upright or red varieties should be 

 pruned in the manner shown by the above illustration. 



\/ST. REGIS EVERBEARING. The early 'till late" Raspberry 



An everbearing red variety of remarkable merit. As one grower put it, '"'it is the first, last and 

 all the time Raspberry;" for it gives ripe berries earlier than any other kind and continues to do so 

 continuously until the ground is frozen in late autumn. 



St'. Eegis is of pure American blood and of ironclad hardihood— the canes enduring the severest 

 cold uninjured and are very prolific. Its foliage never suffers by sunburn or scald, nor its growth of 

 cane impaired by the heat and drought of summer. 



In addition to the bright crimson color and large size of the fruit, it is so firm and rich in sugar 

 that it will stand shipping two hundred miles, arriving at market in first-class order; and it can readi- 

 ly be kept in perfect condition for several days after being gathered. In brief, it is such a marvel 

 in beauty and excellence it has been given the name St'. Regis; the finest hotel in the world, with 

 guests who are the most fastidious and discriminating of all epicures. 



The merits of this truly reliable everbearing raspberry may be summarized as follows: — 



1. It is the earliest of all red raspberries; beginning to ripen from June 15th to 20th. 



2. It is wonderfully prolific; the first or main crop being far greater than that of any other red 

 variety known (equalling the blackcap, or purple cane sort). 



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