// io be sent by mail, add 40c. per 100; at dozen rates mailed 

 free when desired. At 1000 rates by express or freight only. 



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Any land that will produce good crops of com or 

 wheat is suitable for raspberries ; and, unlike strawber- 

 ries, they are benefitted by partial shade. Prepare the 

 ground thoroughly and manure liberally. The upright 

 growing varieties should be planted for field culture in 

 rows six feet apart, and the plants three feet distant in 

 the rows, requiring 2.4rX) plants per acre ; or four feet 

 apart each way, to be cultivated in hills, requiring 2,722 

 plants per acre. In garden culture plant three feet apart 

 each way and restrict to hills. It is best to place two 

 plants in each hill, requiring, of course, double the 

 the number. Soon as planted cut back the canes to 

 within a few inches of the ground. The cap varieties 

 succeed not only on good soil but many sorts yield large 

 profitable crops on the lightest kind of sandy land. In 

 field culture plant them in rows seven feet apart and 

 three and a half feet distant in the row, requiring 1,778 

 plants to the acre ; or five feet apart each way, requiring 

 i,742 plants to the acre. In garden culture plant four 

 feet apart each way. 



Keep the soil loose and free of weeds throughout 

 the season, cutting down the suckers with the hoe or 

 cultivator, and leaving onh* single rows, or three or four canes to the hill, for fruiting. Prune the 

 bearing canes of the upright-growing varieties by cutting Vjack one-half their length on an average 

 and shorten in the laterals. In pruning Blackcaps cut the bearing canes at the middle of the bend. 

 The pruning should be done in the late winter or early spring preceding the fruiting season. 



CARDINAL. 



Truly a wonder among raspberries, its canes being so robust and gigantic and its fruit really 

 monstrous in size. It is of the Columbian and Shaffer type, surpassing them in its rampant growth of 

 cane. The canes often attain a height of 1-5 to 20 feet, are entirely free from all disease, of ironclad 

 hardiness 1 having endured 80 degrees below zero without injury 1, and so productive as to be fairly 

 loaded down with its prodigious yield. The berries are very large, purplish crimson in color, firm and 

 exceedingly rich and sprightl_v,'with full raspberry' flavor. I believe no other raspberry will produce 

 so much upon the same space as this giant sort, and it is of immense value for the home garden, the 

 berries being so fine in quality, so abundant and so excellent for canning. The canes root from the 

 tips like Blackcaps, and being such a strong grower it should be given extra \vide space. It succeeds 

 everywhere, even at the far South, and will surely please all who plant it. Doz., $1.00; lOO, ?v5.00. 

 (1000 rates upon application; . 



