=1 SJHALL FRUITS AND HOW TO QROW THEM |^ 
■feet. Try it sure. SOc per doz., $2.00 per 
100 and S8.00 per 1,000. 
Tm-: West(}.n-. 
Wolvertoii (H). A splendid berry and 
a poUenizer of strong'est potency. Foliag^e 
very vig'oroiis and free from blemish. Ber- 
ries larg'e, brig^ht color and g'ood. Succeeds 
everywhere. Medium early. 25c per doz., 
60c per 100 and $3.50 per 1,000. 
Wilson's Albany (B) comes at the foot , 
only because of the letter in the alphabet. 
It never did succeed on all soils, but has 
long: held the boards as the most popular 
berry ever introduced. We have it of its 
old time vig'or, enormou.sly productive, and 
the best shipper ever introduced. All deal- 
ers like to handle it because it stands up. 
2Sc per doz., 60c per 100 and $3.50 per 1,000. 
RASPBERRIES. 
In looking- over the raspberry plantations 
of the country it is surprisiuf;- that they are 
in as g-ood condition as they are. It is a 
universal custom among- growers to fruit 
their plantations until all run out and then 
begin a new plantation by taking plants 
from the old patch and again fruit them till 
exhausted and then replant from them in the 
same way. 
Nnrscryiuoii .is a, vxiXv- set out a few of 
each variety and take plants and fruit from 
them just as long- as possible g-iving little 
attention to fruiting vig'or. Many of these 
plantations are not properly pruned so that 
they become not only weak in potency of 
pollen, but are allowed to .set more fruit 
than they can bring to maturity and thus 
the plants become weakened and give way 
to attacks of disease and fungi which goes 
into the tips and is thus transmitted to the 
new beds. It is the same old i-aspberry patch 
in the new plantation only supported by 
new roots. 
More than half tlu- labor is thrown 
away because they cannot respond to fertil- 
izers and extra culture. Every grower knows 
that anthracnose worl<s many times as bad 
in an old plantation as in a new one. The 
fact that the plantation should fruit heavily 
eight or ten years makes the loss by using- 
poor exhausted plants very heavy. Never 
set a raspberry plant which comes from a 
plantation which has borne a heavy crop. 
On good soil the annual yield should be 
from one hundred and fifty to two hundred 
bushels per acre, and yet under the system 
above referred to the average yield is very 
much less than half that amount. 
The proper way is to select ideal plants, 
just as in the case of strawberries and renew 
every two years in the propagating beds 
and prune the second year very closely so as 
to restrict and develop fruiting strength and 
general good qualities. The extra fruit for 
one year would pay for the plants several 
times over. Now multiply this by the years 
the plants are in fruit and you can deter- 
mine the difference between common ex- 
hausted plants and those bred up to high 
fruiting power. 
Plaiitinfj'. Rows should be at least seven 
feet apart and plants three feet apart in the 
row. Having fitted the ground as for straw- 
berries, plow a furrow about five inches 
deep for blackcaps, set the plants flat in the 
furrow with roots spread out in every 
direction, taking the greatest care to get 
fresh earth in contact with all the roots and 
cover immediately. 
Cultivation should be thorough and 
frequent until the last berries are all picked, 
when the old wood should be cut out. It is 
the greatest blunder to stop cultivating in 
the driest part of the season, when the 
bushes are bringing their great loads of fruit 
to perfection. The feet of the pickers 
tramp the ground down hard and capillary 
action brings the water to the surface where 
it is carried off by wind and sun very rap- 
idly. L,et the cultivator go through them 
after every picking. 
One of the neatest ways of growing 
raspberries is to string a wire about four 
feet high with a stake every forty feet, and 
tie the canes to this. The expense is not 
great and it prevents the wind from thresh- 
ing the berries off and gives clear space for 
cultivating. In this ca.se I would not pinch 
them back but let them grow in their natu- 
ral way, and at winter pruning cut off the 
upper third, and this will leave enough buds 
to produce all the l)erries the bush can ma- 
ture without exliaustion. I have come to 
regard pinching off terminal buds when the 
plant is about eighteen inches high a mi.s- 
take. Checking natural growth at this time 
interferes with assimilation of plant food, 
and if the season is very dry and hot several 
days often intervene before new buds start. 
Hnt if K'rouinl is rieh, canes get .so 
long that cultivation is interfered with and 
pinching back might become a necessity if 
wire is not used. Great care should be exer- 
cised to remove onlj' the terminal Imd and 
not a leaf if it can be prevented. Never 
pinch in the laterals. One pinching of the 
main plant is enough. Never tie the canes 
to a stake in a bundle. They must have 
light and air and will not fruit without it. 
lied rasi>berri<'s should be treated the 
same as black caps e.xcept no pinching 
