. Horticulture; a text book for high schools and normals, including plant propagation; plant breeding; gardening; orcharding; small fruit growing; forestry; beautifying home grounds; the soils and enemies involved. - may also be dried and saved without the use of are also made ;nto jams and jellies. Insect Enemies.—Cane borers are probably the most trouble-some of the insect enemies of the raspberry. The eggs are laid bythe adult in the tips of the canes and the larva? when hatched willsoon cause the tips to droop. When this is noticed, pruning offthe tops will destroy them. Cut well
. Horticulture; a text book for high schools and normals, including plant propagation; plant breeding; gardening; orcharding; small fruit growing; forestry; beautifying home grounds; the soils and enemies involved. - may also be dried and saved without the use of are also made ;nto jams and jellies. Insect Enemies.—Cane borers are probably the most trouble-some of the insect enemies of the raspberry. The eggs are laid bythe adult in the tips of the canes and the larva? when hatched willsoon cause the tips to droop. When this is noticed, pruning offthe tops will destroy them. Cut well below the drooping partand burn prunings. Eggs and larvae in these tips are thus destroyed. PERMANENCY OF THE RASPBERRY PATCH 257 Diseases.—Several serious diseases affect the raspberry. Crowngall (Fig. 185) and orange rust are quite common. Anthracnoseand cane blight are sometimes quite serious. Great danger fromthese diseases arises from setting plants affected by them. Somevarieties are more immune to the disease than others. Sprayingremedies against these troubles are not commonly used. On the. Fig. 184.—A form of wire trellis used for supporting raspberry canes. () other hand, the chief means of control is to eradicate the plantswhen affected with orange rust or crown gall. Cut out the canesand burn the prunings when affected by cane blight or by anthrac-nose. Permanency of the Raspberry Patch.—With both the red andthe black raspberries it is necessary to avoid crowding of the plan-17 258 BUSH FRUITS IN THE HOME GARDEN tation as it becomes old. Red raspberries, if allowed to spread byshoots from the ground, should be thinned out every few black raspberries are cultivated close to the plants and arepruned as suggested by cutting out all the old canes annually, theplantation may last indefinitely. BLACKBERRIES As blackberries are native in such a large part of the country,they are less commonly grown in gardens than raspberries. They are however gro
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