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season should be spread out and tied to the 

 wires in the same manner, and the plants 

 allowed to renew themselves by sending up a 

 growth of canes, as described above. This 

 process goes on year after year. The old roots 

 remain, but we get an entirely new growth of 

 fruiting stalks each season. 



This method will be found very satisfactory, 

 as it keeps the growth of each season apart, 

 and makes it easy to remove the old wood. It 

 is not an easy matter to do this if the growth 

 of each season is allowed to mix with each 

 other. It is largely because of this difficulty 

 that so many plantations of these plants are 

 neglected. One cannot handle the plants with- 

 out serious injury to the hands, therefore they 

 are let alone, and after a year or two of neglect 

 they fail to give good crops and it is decided 

 that the raspberries ''have run out," and the 

 plants are torn up and raspberry growing is 

 abandoned as a failure. The failure is not 

 with the plants. It is in the method of 

 caring for them. 



At the time of cutting away the old canes, I 

 remove the stakes and wires because they will 

 be in the way when the time comes to give the 



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