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and tliorouglily drained bottom, and elevated as above described, 
will, with good after-management, ensure success. 
259 Raspberries. These will thrive in almost any ordinary soil, 
provided it be permanently moist — not wet. In this respect 
they are in habit similar to the Black Currant. The finest I 
have ever known, were growing in a dark and unctuous staple; 
rich, I presume, in humus, and of considerable depth. Where 
the site intended for them is of a loose, shallow, or gravelly, 
character, it should be well dressed with pond mud, ditch .scour- 
ings, peat, or marl, or all of these blended ; without this, or 
a similar addition, all manuring will be in vain. Old cow 
manure is very suitable for them. The ground should be 
thoroughly trenched and the materials well blended. It is a 
very good plan to plant these and the Black Currant together, 
in alternate rows, as their habit, in regard to soil, is similar. 
The rows should, if possible, run north and south ; and if Black 
Currants alternate with them, about six feet should be allowed 
from tbe row of Raspberries to the row of Currants. In 
making a new plantation, the month of February may be 
chosen, although they will succeed nearly or quite as well if 
removed in the early part of November. My practice is to put 
two young canes in each hole, nearly close together. When 
planted, they may receive a good watering, and also a top- 
dressing of rotten manure. About modes of staking, summer 
and winter dressing, &c., I will say a few words in the proper 
place. 
260 Black Currants. As before observed, with regard to 
Raspberries, a permanency of moisture in the soil is indispens- 
able; let me not, however, be misunderstood. If the ground be 
absolutely stagnant they will not succeed — it must be drained ; 
they will, however, endure more moisture than Raspberries. The 
same mode of improving the staple for a new plantation, as recom- 
mended for Raspberries, may be adopted with success. The 
farmers and cottagers of some parts of Cheshire, not unfre- 
quently plant the ditch sides with them ; and some, who are 
bad reconomists of manure — suffering their surplus fold-yard 
liquid to escape by an open ditch, obtain excellent crops from 
the Black Cunants planted on the banks of such ditches. 
Young plants, of about three years from the cutting, with half- 
a-dozen shoots, are most eligible for planting. The middle of 
