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Garden Work 
The best method of growing the Raspberry cane is 
on a wire fence. Strong posts should be driven into the 
ground 12 ft. apart, and two wires stretched from post to 
post, the first one being 2 ft. from the ground; while the 
second may, on heavy soils, be 4 or 5 ft. high. The canes 
should be tied to these, and cut over in late spring, after 
the danger of frost is past. They will afterwards break 
out at each eye, forming nice young shoots, which will bear 
fruit the same season. After fruiting, the canes die down, 
the plant in the meantime producing young canes which 
will take the place 
of the old ones, and 
fruit the following 
season. 
As birds are very 
Raspberry — Espalier Training fond of the fruit, 
the canes must be 
netted early. The best way to do this is to have strong 
pieces of wood nailed together in the form of a T. These 
should be fastened to the posts well above the top of the 
canes, with the cross piece at right angles to the line of 
canes. Strong cords should then be stretched from one 
cross piece to the other, the cross piece being not less than 
4 ft. long. The net should be laid along the centre line 
of the cross piece, and afterwards dropped down on either 
side. As soon as all the fruit is picked, the net should 
be removed, and the young canes tied loosely in until the 
old canes ripen off, when they should be cut out entirely, 
and the young canes tied in more tightly, until there is 
time to get them permanently fastened to the wires. 
During the winter a thorough topdressing of vegetable 
