. Green's Nursery Co. : spring 1897. Nursery stock New York (State) Rochester Catalogs; Fruit trees Seedlings Catalogs. HOW A FIELD OF LOUDON RED RASPBERRIES LOOKS. Raspberry Culture. Raspberries may be planted four to five feet apart each way, cultivated both ways, but we prefer to plant all raspberries in rows 7 feet apart, plants 3% feet apart, and either plant potatoes or like crop the first year in rowsbetween, or in hills. If planted in hills the plot can be cultivated both ways. Raspberries succeed on all good soils, yet they should have one which is well drained, but moist and easily w
. Green's Nursery Co. : spring 1897. Nursery stock New York (State) Rochester Catalogs; Fruit trees Seedlings Catalogs. HOW A FIELD OF LOUDON RED RASPBERRIES LOOKS. Raspberry Culture. Raspberries may be planted four to five feet apart each way, cultivated both ways, but we prefer to plant all raspberries in rows 7 feet apart, plants 3% feet apart, and either plant potatoes or like crop the first year in rowsbetween, or in hills. If planted in hills the plot can be cultivated both ways. Raspberries succeed on all good soils, yet they should have one which is well drained, but moist and easily worked. A sandy or clay loam is excellent. The one thing1 which they will not abide is a wet, heavy soil, or standing- water about the roots. When planting the black raspberry plant, the top of root where new shoots start should be the part most observed. Let the germ be covered two inches, with light, moist soil, and the soil about the roots trod firmly. Raspberries, both red and black, are among the most easily grown of any of the small fruits. The black raspberry requires more room between the rows than the red, owing to its spreading character, and yet, if properly pruned, it may be kept low growing and within limited space. The red raspberry sells for higher prices ordinarily than the black, but the black raspberry usually yields more bushels per acre than the red. Black raspberries should be planted three feet apart in the row and seven feet apart between the rows, for field culture. For gai-den culture both red and black raspberries can be grown in rows closer together with much pleasure and profit. A fruit grower living near Rochester, fruited three-quarters of an acre of red raspberries and cleared above all expenses of picking and marketing $, A few acres of raspberries, both black and red may be profitably" marketed in any rural community, and will be found exceedingly profitable. It does not require any special knowledge of fruit growing to suc- ceed with
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