What to do when planting 
Raspberries and what to 
expect from your garden 
GROWING RASPBERRIES 
Raspberries are among our finest 
fruits and with proper care produce 
abundantly, but they will not stand ne¬ 
glect as blackberries and dewberries do. 
They are shallow rooted and require 
much more water than other berries and 
it is not enough to run a little furrow 
down by the side of the row, but the 
whole ground between the rows should 
be fiooded with water. Then after they 
are growing well they should be kept 
fertilized. Nothing is better for this 
than plenty of manure of any kind, scat¬ 
tered in the whole space between the 
rows and soaked in by a heavy irriga¬ 
tion. In shipping raspberry plants it is 
customary to leave the canes a foot oi 
more long. When the plants are set out 
it is very much the best practice to cut 
these canes off to within a very few 
inches of the ground. This will make 
them send up much stronger canes. As 
the first new canes reach a height of 
about twelve inches pinch them back a 
few inches. This will make them 
branch out. It is a good practice to go 
through the patch several times in the 
early part of the first growing season 
and pinch out the tips to make the 
bushes branch out well. 
Then in February, after the plants are 
entirely dormant, prune all of the canes 
and their branches back at least one- 
third of their length. Use plenty of 
water all season, and manure freely. 
When they send up suckers between the 
rows, hoe them out while small along 
with the weeds and do not allow but 
very few suckers to grow in the rows 
either. 
After the raspberries have been grow¬ 
ing several months they will begin to 
need some support. A satisfactory trellis 
can be easily provided by setting light 
redwood posts down the rows spaced 
about thirty feet apart. Posts or stakes 
six feet long will be high enough, about 
one and one-half feet in the ground and 
iVz feet out. Before setting the posts 
you should nail little cross arms to them 
at the height that seems to provide the 
best support for your bushes. The cross 
arms should be about twelve inches long 
and should have a little saw notch 
sawed on top and about one inch in from 
their ends to hold the wires. This will 
space the wires ten inches apart and will 
save any stapleing. Later, if the rasp¬ 
berries grow fine and seem to need more 
support, a second set of wires can be 
provided near the top of the posts. No. 
16 galvanized wire, which runs about 70 
feet to the pound, will be heavy enough 
for raspberries. Other berries should be 
trellised with heavier wire. If the berry 
canes spread these wires out too wide 
between posts the wires can be properly 
spaced by tieing them together with 
short pieces of wire. Be sure to keep the 
suckers that come up in the rows hoed 
out. If many are allowed to grow they 
will ruin your crop. 
A cluster of Iiloyd George raspberries. 
This variety produces the largest rasp¬ 
berries we have ever seen, averaging 
nearly as large as IiOganberrles. We 
have counted many clusters with 80 to 
100 berries to the cluster 
SUGGESTIONS FOR THE 
RASPBERRY GARDEN 
As compared with most other varie¬ 
ties Of berries, raspberry bushes are 
small and are planted much closer to¬ 
gether; therefore you should set out a 
larger number of plants in order to have 
enough fruit for your family. 
The average family, to have an abun¬ 
dance of fruit for all, should plant not 
less than 25 raspberry plants; which 
rnakes only a fifty-foot row. Many fami¬ 
lies find it better, if the space is very 
limited, to have only one variety, with 
plenty of berries while they last than to 
have a fifty-foot row of three kinds 
which could furnish a few berries over 
a longer season. On the other hand, if 
space is available you can have the same 
space divided between several varieties 
and have raspberries from early spring 
until frost in the fall. 
For the long season in Southern Cali¬ 
fornia, we suggest California Surprise, 
Cuthbert and Lloyd George. For dis¬ 
tricts further north or with colder win¬ 
ters than we have here, we suggest 
Cuthbert, Latham and Lloyd George. 
Your raspberry garden needs good land, 
fertilizer, water and care. If you can’t 
give it these requirements, then plant 
blackberries, dewberries, Youngberries or 
Boysenberries, which are all less exact¬ 
ing. 
Follow Directions and Fertilize Often For Success 
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