. Guide to hardy fruits and ornamentals . Fruit-culture. 60 DWYEE'S GUIDE. Caps, are extensively cultivated for market where there is usually a good demand for the fruit at remunerative prices. The Pinlt varieties are grown largely and almost entirely for canning purposes Doth by the home people and those with large /7 "fEfoUDON the lateral All are good in their natural state for table use, and when a dozen plants of each are set in the gar- den we can enjoy this de- licious fruit for four to five weeks. We should ar- range our selection of varieties to prolong the season for
. Guide to hardy fruits and ornamentals . Fruit-culture. 60 DWYEE'S GUIDE. Caps, are extensively cultivated for market where there is usually a good demand for the fruit at remunerative prices. The Pinlt varieties are grown largely and almost entirely for canning purposes Doth by the home people and those with large /7 "fEfoUDON the lateral All are good in their natural state for table use, and when a dozen plants of each are set in the gar- den we can enjoy this de- licious fruit for four to five weeks. We should ar- range our selection of varieties to prolong the season for fruit as much as possible, not neglect- ing that important consid- eration of best quality when the aim and pur- pose is to supply our own table. Prepare the ground and manure it the same as you would for straw- berries; then make fur- rows six feet apart and set your plants in these two feet apart, cnus form- ing a continuous row of fruiting, which gives one- third more fruit than could be had from the quite generally abandon- ed old hill system. Cut back tne plants to within six inches from the ground. Set posts twenty feet apart and run one wire 3% feet from the ground, and train your fruiting cane to the wire. This is the cheapest and best method and is being adopted now quite gener- ally. The canes should be pruned back to within branches should be pruned five feet from the ground and back to fifteen inches. The Bush System of growring Raspberries of all kinds is to plant in furrows three feet apart. The plants should be trained in bush form: this is done by Summer pruning or pinching back of the leader and lateral branches. The leader or main branch should not be over three and one-half feet from the ground; the lateral branches should be started near the surface of the soil and should not be more than eighteen inches in length. It requires considerable pincliing back during the growing season to make a plant of this formation, but it is the only pruning needed and the bu
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