292 THE COTTAGE GARDENER AND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN’S COMPANION, January 27, 1857. 
is but very meagre, though I hope what I have stated may 
be sufficient to show how highly favoured we are as regards 
climate. As Kent is considered the garden of England, in 
like manner may Kilkenny be admitted as the garden of 
Ireland; and, in taking advantage of it, the greatest credit 
reflects on Mr. Butler for what he has effected at Wood- 
stock, and to his employer for giving him the means.— 
William Miller, Gowran Castle Gardens. 
THE CULTURE OF RASPBERRIES AT HAARLEM. 
(Translated from the Revue Horticole.) 
We have shown in our Traite d’Arboriculture what ap¬ 
peared to us the most convenient method of cultivating the 
Raspberry in the fruit garden. That method presents espe¬ 
cially this advantage, that the fruit-bearing canes of the year 
are completely isolated from those which bear fruit in the 
year following; and hence all confusion is avoided, the fruit 
is more easily gathered, is more exposed to the influence of 
the sun, and is of better quality. 
Fig l. Raspberries after the winter pruning. 
The Raspberries are planted m rows about three feet 
three inches apart, and five feet distant from each other in 
the rows. When the planting is completed each of the rows 
will be placed in a small furrow about a foot in depth ; the 
superabundant soil being raised on each side serves to top- 
dress and raise up the plants. During summer only four 
new canes are allowed to be developed by each plant, choice 
being made of the most vigorous, and those which are 
placed nearest to the original stock; the others are removed 
when they are about a foot high. In the spring following 
the old canes are removed, and the four new ones are short¬ 
ened, so as to leave them two feet and a half in length. 
They are then tied down to two stakes, as represented in 
Fig 1, a a. 
i 
Fig. 2. Raspberries during their growth. 
I During summer the canes a a a, Fig. 2, which were pruned 
! and Bed down in the spring, bear fruit, and four new canes, 
bh, are produced from each stock. At the winter pruning 
! following the canes a, Fig. 2, which have borne fruit, are 
| cut away, and the new canes produced from b b are short¬ 
ened back to two feet and a half, and tied down to the place 
! 
occupied by the fruit-bearing canes the year previously. 
The same operations being repeated each year, the result 
is, that the fruit-bearing canes a, Fig. 2, are always isolated 
from the new ones b, and that confusion and other incon¬ 
veniences which we remarked at the beginning of this article 
are avoided.—Du Breuil. 
QUERIES AND ANSWERS. 
MANAGEMENT OF SCARLET GERANIUMS FOR 
WINTER BLOOMING. 
“ I selected eight plants from my stock, and retarded 
them behind a north wall until the end of September and 
beginning of October, giving them their final shift into 
eight-inch pots some time previous to this. I was then 
rewarded for my labour with eight splendid plants, very 
dwarf, with plenty of foliage, nearly hiding the pots from 
view, and abundant bloom. About the 12th of October I 
removed them to the greenhouse, just a day or two before 
the. rain came on in that month. They had not been in 
their new quarters above three weeks or a month before 
some of their leaves began to turn yellow, and dropped off, 
and so they have continued up to the present time, until 
l 
they are mere skeletons, with no bloom and very little 
foliage.”—T. T. 
[What could you have been thinking about when growing 
scarlet Geraniums behind a north wall the whole summer 
and down to housing time, and then to have them fresh 
potted in September ? Have you not read in every one of 
our volumes that even to strike Geranium cuttings behind a 
north wall is mad heresy, and only encourages downright 
laziness in the man, and a soft, spongy, flabby growth, which 
it is difficult to keep alive in winter ? Yet cuttings make 
but a small part of their growth while they are rooting 
behind the wall, whereas your plants made a season’s 
growth there. If we had a long arm and a shepherd’s crook 
we could haul in just now as many scarlets in bloom, from 
our sanctum conservatory, as would “ set up ” a princess’s 
wedding — Tom Thumbs, Cerise Unique, Lady Middleton 
