. Catalogue of nursery stock. Seed industry and trade Michigan Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs. 44 GREENING BROS., MONROE, M CH. Few people, even tillers of the soil, know to what extent the raspberry has been grown of late years. This is more especially the CHse with black caps. Some who raised from one to five acres now raise from ten to fifty. The price has not come down, nor is it likely to. Black caps are so easily dried that the grower will not have to pay express charges and commission unless he is pretty sure of a fair price. Red varieties are seldom or never dried. If they
. Catalogue of nursery stock. Seed industry and trade Michigan Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs. 44 GREENING BROS., MONROE, M CH. Few people, even tillers of the soil, know to what extent the raspberry has been grown of late years. This is more especially the CHse with black caps. Some who raised from one to five acres now raise from ten to fifty. The price has not come down, nor is it likely to. Black caps are so easily dried that the grower will not have to pay express charges and commission unless he is pretty sure of a fair price. Red varieties are seldom or never dried. If they can not be sold at a paying price, they are canned or made into a jam or jelly. Any good variety— either black or red—will yield more bushels to the acre than corn, and from three to six crops may be obtained from a single planting. One should have some knowledge of fruit culture before he can expect great success. If really anxious to learn, he can get this knowl- edge from the experience of others. The directions in this little book, if faithfully carried out, would insure success. Raspberries are worth from three to eight dollars a bushel; they meet with a ready sale, they are nice to handle, they do not exhaust the soil, and they come into market at a time when every one is earning money and is willing to spend it, and in school holidays, when cheaply gathered. Culture.—When plants arrive, plant at once or '• heel them ; Prepare the soil as recommeded for strawberries. Unlike strawberries, raspberries are rather benefitted by shade, if not too dense. In field culture, all but the "cap'" varieties should be planted in rows six feet apart, and the plants three feet apart in the rows; the "caps" six by three and a half feet. In garden culture, plant " caps " five by three feet ; the others three feet apart each way. In planting, expose roots to frost, wind and sun as little as possible, and press the earth about the plants very fir
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