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Raspberries and Blackberries 



years. There is no reason why they should 

 not if they are encouraged to fully renew them- 

 selves annually. 



Both raspberries and blackberries should 

 have protection in winter, at the north. My 

 method of caring for them is this: I begin at 

 the end of the row, and gather all the canes in 

 a hill into a bunch, and bend them down to the 

 ground as flatly as possible, working slowly 

 and carefully, to avoid breaking or cracking 

 the stalks at their junction with the roots. It 

 is well to have an assistant when this work is 

 done. One cannot do it very well alone. Let 

 one person bend the plants over and hold them 

 down, while the other puts a spadeful of soil 

 on them to keep them in place. Then take 

 the next hill, bend it down so that its top 

 overlaps the crown of the hill first treated, and 

 so continue until all the plants in a row are 

 flat, and in a line from one end of it to the 

 other. Then go along the rows, a man on each 

 side, and with a spade throw soil up against the 

 plants. After having done this, I put on a 

 covering of coarse litter from the barnyard. 

 Straw or hay will answer the same purpose. 

 This is given to shade such parts of the plants 



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