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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
TRANSPLANTED RASPBERRIES FOR THE 
RETAIL TRADE 
Merits of Tips and Transplants. Transplants the Best 
W. N. SCARFF, New Carlisle, Ohio 
A transplanted raspberry is an ordinary tip or sucker 
plant grown one year in the nursery row. A sucker plant 
is one that comes up of its own accord during the months 
of May, June and July, from the parent hill of red and 
yellow varieties of raspberries. A tip plant is grown from 
black and purple varieties of raspberries by layering of the 
ends of the branches in earth naturally or artificially during 
the months of August and September. 
So you see in either the case of the tip or sucker plant 
there is but a short time to grow the finished product, and 
the plant thus grown is 
necessarily small,and being 
of quick growth is of soft 
wood and immature, and 
must have the best of care 
else it will soon perish when 
exposed to the sun or wind. 
TRANSPLANTS SUPERIOR 
Now, I am not going to 
say to you that a trans¬ 
planted raspberry will yield 
a fraction more fruit, that 
it will withstand at matur¬ 
ity a drought any better, 
or a single degree more of 
cold, nor is it a bit better 
in any way than an ordinary tip or sucker plant so far as 
its value for productiveness is concerned. But there is one 
particular point in which the transplant is so far superior 
to the tip or sucker, that there is really no comparison be¬ 
tween the two. And it is on this one point that I shall 
base my entire argument in favor of the transplants against 
the tip or the sucker. 
You have all had experience in making delivery of tip 
plants, and you know that I speak the truth when I say that 
next to the strawberry the raspberry is the most un¬ 
satisfactory and most difficult plant to deliver that you 
have to deal with. Let me tell you why this is. You can¬ 
not begin to grow a tip plant before the canes from the 
parent hill have made growth enough that the ends will 
easily reach the ground, that they may be covered with 
earth, and this will occur during the months of August 
and September. The sucker plant starts growth a little 
earlier, but in either case there are only two or three 
months at longest for them to mature. For in October, 
and sometimes in latter part of September, you are clamour¬ 
ing for your raspberry plants; and these young, immature 
bunches of white roots must be dug in the hot, dry days of 
early autumn, and with the best possible care that can be 
given them there is danger of their being more or less 
damaged in handling. After this they must be shipped to 
destination, and usually by freight, which requires ten days 
to two weeks longer. 
They are finally put on your packing grounds, repacked 
in small quantities often times, and tied up with a bundle 
of trees, and then another long freight shipment occurs, 
finally reaching the hands of the planter in the latter part 
of October or early November. Now, is it reasonable to 
believe or to expect a plant 
that was only 40 to 60 
days in the making to 
withstand such treatment? 
When you come to con¬ 
sider the matter is it any 
wonder that you have 
trouble, or to put it in a 
little stronger language, 
can you imagine how it is 
possible for them to grow 
at all? I believe if the 
figures were at hand that 
I might tell you just how 
many of these early fall 
dug plants do actually 
grow that the fact would 
still be more astounding. For it is one of the most diffi¬ 
cult plants to pack and have open up in good shape there 
is. If you pack in tight cases there is danger of heat¬ 
ing ; if in slatted crates they will dry out and be value¬ 
less; if the moss is too wet they will rot, and if too dry 
they shrivel to almost nothing. They cannot be dug 
and stored any length of time or they would mould and the 
canes die, and if left in the ground over winter they 
winter-kill. 
TIP PLANTS TENDER 
The tip and the sucker raspberry plants are all right 
in their place; and even if they are small and tender they 
have bound up in them every element and every quality 
necessary for the production of immense crops of fruit. 
Those tiny, often immature plants have stored in them 
exactly the same energy, the same elements, the same 
proportions, the same productiveness, vigor, vitality and 
strength as the transplant; but it is in an undeveloped 
state. You have the same conditions here as you have in 
the apple graft after it has once attached itself to the root. 
In the graft you have the true Baldwin or the Winesap 
Orchard scene near Grand Junction, Colorado. Irrigating canal 
above orchard areas on left 
