92 THE BLACKBEERY. 



TVTien tliiis favored, it ">viil })roloiig its period of bear- 

 ino; from four to six vreeks. Usual o'ood garden soil is 

 favorable for tlie blackberry, and it ^viU bear being 

 made pretty ricli vdtli manures after the first year and 

 especially vitli muck or voods'-mould. It should be 

 transplanted as early in tke spring as possible, or in 

 the £[11, and especial care should be taken of its fibrous 

 roots and its vdiole general culture the first year, and 

 then it vill gro^v, produce fruit, and propagate itself 

 rapidly. 



The canes "which come up one season will bear 

 fruit the next and then die in the autumn, and the 

 dead branches must be carefully removed early every 

 spring, in order to make room for the new ones to 

 take their place^ and this beautiful process of re^orocluc- 

 tion thus goes on ; so that a single plant set out in a 

 good free soil will send up two, three, or four plants, 

 and those will increase to a score or more the follow- 

 ing season if carefully pruned and kept clean. 



The ends of the canes should be shortened about 

 one cpiarter early in the spring, when the old decayed 

 ones are removed, and if the laterals are too long clip 

 them also. They usually recj_uire no su23port. 



TEAXSPLAXTIXG. 



Particular care, we think, is needed in transplanting 

 the blackberry. It should not be attempted late in the 

 sj)ring, otherwdse a great share of the plants wdll hardly- 



