. Amateur fruit growing. Fruit-culture. 22 RASPBERRIES AND BLACKBERRIES. Lifting Canes in Spring.—In the spring use a roundtined fork; carefully remove the earth and raise the plants to a slanting position. It is found that left in this position the fruiting canes are shaded by the new growth and are not so crowded as when raised up straight. A Convenient Box Holder.—Thay- er's berry-pickers' box carrier (see Fig. 13) for use in picking raspberries and black- berries, is made of tin of a size to easily hold a berry box. It has straps to fasten around the waist of the picker, and a slat- ted bo


. Amateur fruit growing. Fruit-culture. 22 RASPBERRIES AND BLACKBERRIES. Lifting Canes in Spring.—In the spring use a roundtined fork; carefully remove the earth and raise the plants to a slanting position. It is found that left in this position the fruiting canes are shaded by the new growth and are not so crowded as when raised up straight. A Convenient Box Holder.—Thay- er's berry-pickers' box carrier (see Fig. 13) for use in picking raspberries and black- berries, is made of tin of a size to easily hold a berry box. It has straps to fasten around the waist of the picker, and a slat- ted bottom, so the berry box may be easily pushed up from the under side when taken out. Its chief advantage is that it leaves both hands of the picker free to gather fruit and keeps dirt out of the boxes. Diseases.—There is a great difference in the liability to diseases of 1 he different va- rieties of the raspberry. Some of the kinds ^^' producing the finest fruit are so weak in constitution as to render them valueless for cultivation, and only those kinds are profitable ?which are strong ahd vigorous in constitution and resist diseases without recourse to special treatment. High cultivation will be found the best preventive of disease, but there are three diseases that are occasionally very injurious even in the best cultivated plantations. (1) Leaf Curl.—This name is indicative of one of the early stages of the disease. The leaves curl up, and though they may remain green all through the season the plants make a poor, weak growth. The fruit is dull in color, small in size, and rather bitter in taste. Later the plants kill out, and any healthy sets with which they may be replaced soon succumb to the trouble. This disease spreads very slowly, and, as a rule, there are only a few infected spots in a plantation, which slowly increase in size from year to year. The spread of the disease may be prevented to a great extent by pulling and burning the diseased plants as fast as t


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