. Manual of gardening : a practical guide to the making of home grounds and the growing of flowers, fruits, and vegetables for home use . Gardening. RASPBERRY—STRAWBERRY 445. If it is desired to secure new plants, the ends of the branches of the black varieties should be covered with soil about the middle of August, when the tips are seen to divide into several slender shoots, and to take root (Fig. 288); these can be taken up and planted the following spring. While the suckers that spring from the roots of red varieties (Fig. 287) may be used in propagating them, it will be better to use plan
. Manual of gardening : a practical guide to the making of home grounds and the growing of flowers, fruits, and vegetables for home use . Gardening. RASPBERRY—STRAWBERRY 445. If it is desired to secure new plants, the ends of the branches of the black varieties should be covered with soil about the middle of August, when the tips are seen to divide into several slender shoots, and to take root (Fig. 288); these can be taken up and planted the following spring. While the suckers that spring from the roots of red varieties (Fig. 287) may be used in propagating them, it will be better to use plants grown from root-cut- tings, as they wiU have much better , 287. Sprouting habit q£ red raspberry. Raspberries may be bent over to the ground so that the snow will protect them, in severe climates. For red rust, pull out the plant, root and branch, and burn it. Short rotations — fruiting the plants only two or three years — and burning the old canes and trimmings, will do much to keep raspberry plantations healthy. Spraying will have some effect in combating anthracnose. Varieties of raspberries. Of the black sorts the following will be found desirable: Palmer, Conrath, Kansas, and Eureka, which ripen in the order named. In some sections the Gregg is still valuable, but it js somewhat lacking in hardiness. Ohio is a favorite variety for evaporating. Of the purple- cap varieties, Shaffer and Columbian generally succeed. Among the red varieties none are more universally successful than Cuthbert. King is a promising early variety, and Loudon is a valuable late kind. Many growers find Marlboro and Turner well worthy of cultivation, although rather local in their adaptations; while for home use. Golden Queen, a yellow Cuthbert, is much hked. Strawberry. — Every one may grow strawberries, yet the saying that strawberries will grow on any soil is misleading, although true. Some. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitall
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