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GARDEN GUIDE 



RASPBERRIES 



The popular Raspberry is always welcome in the home, and only 

 when freshly gathered has it that lovely flavor peculiar to this 

 fruit and which makes it so desirable in the home garden. Raspberries 

 must be handled with the greatest care or the fruit will become bruised 

 and soon ferment. Small baskets should be used when picking, to pre- 

 vent excessive weight, which invariably crushes the tender berries, and 

 they soon become unfit for use. 



The plants are not particular about the kind of soil they grow in, 

 nor the location. They grow best in a good, rich, well drained, loamy, 

 cultivated garden soil, and should be planted in rows two feet apart 

 and four feet between the rows. They are best tied to a wire trellis 

 for support and to facilitate ease in gathering the fruit. 



The young growths which spring from the base of the plants, 

 should be thinned out to four or five, and after the season's fruit is 

 over, the old fruited wood should be cut out close to the ground, and 

 the young shoots given every chance to ripen before Winter sets in, 

 when they may be tied together in bunches of five or six canes and left 

 in this way until Spring, when they must be tied to the wires and 

 trimmed evenly along the top to make them look neat. 



Raspberries are not subject to much trouble from insects or 

 diseases! 



They are propagated by division of the roots or from cuttings, 

 which should be taken from the ripened shoots and inserted in the 

 ground in September, and will conmience to grow the following Spring. 



There are red, yellow and black Raspberries, but the red varieties 

 are the most popular. A few well tried varieties follow: 



GuTHBERT. Red, large and sweet; the most popular of all Raspberries. 

 Brand YwiNE. A large, bright red berry; a good cropper. 

 Golden Queen. Large, amber color; fine quality. 

 Cumberland. Very large, black, glossy berries, juicy and sweet. 



STRAWBERRIES 



No garden is complete without Strawberries, and as they are so 

 easily grown, no garden should be without them. What is nicer than 

 a dish of Strawberries picked fresh from your own garden? Straw- 

 berries like a rich soil and well repay a very liberal application of fer- 

 tilizer. The best time to plant a bed is in September, when the young 

 plants are just ready. Select an open piece of ground away from tall 

 trees or shrubs; dig in a liberal dressing of well rotted farmyard manure. 



