. Success with small fruits . and for moisture and coolness, they grow withalmost certainty; if subjected to heat and drought, they usually soonbecome dry sticks. The very best course is to make and plant ourcuttings in September or very early in October—just as soon as the leavesfall or will rub off readily. As is true of a root-slip, so also the woodcutting must make a callus at its base before there can be growth. Fromthis the roots start out. Therefore, the earlier in the fall that cuttings aremade, the more time for the formation of this callus. Often, autumn-planted cuttings are well roo
. Success with small fruits . and for moisture and coolness, they grow withalmost certainty; if subjected to heat and drought, they usually soonbecome dry sticks. The very best course is to make and plant ourcuttings in September or very early in October—just as soon as the leavesfall or will rub off readily. As is true of a root-slip, so also the woodcutting must make a callus at its base before there can be growth. Fromthis the roots start out. Therefore, the earlier in the fall that cuttings aremade, the more time for the formation of this callus. Often, autumn-planted cuttings are well rooted before winter, and have just that muchstart over those that must begin life in the spring. Six inches is theaverage length. See Figures A, B and C. Let the cuttings be sunk indeep, rich, moist, but thoroughly well-drained soil, so deeply as to leavebut two or three buds above the ground. In the garden, where the designis to raise a few fine bushes for home use merely, let the rows be two28 2l8 Success with Small feet apart and the cuttings six inches apart in the row. In raising themby the thousand for market, we must economize space and labor; and,therefore, one of the best methods, after rendering the ground mellowand smooth, is to stretch a line across the plat or field ; then, beginning onone side of the line, to strike a spade into the soil its full depth, press itforward and draw it out. This leaves a slight opening of the width and depth of the spade, and a boy, fol-lowing, inserts in this three cuttings,one in the middle and one at each man then steps back and drivesthe spade down again about four inchesin the rear of the first opening, and,as he presses his spade forward tomake a second, he closes up the firstopening, pressing—indeed, almostpinching—the earth around the threeslips that have just been thrust down,until but one or two buds are abovethe surface. We thus have a row ofcuttings, three abreast, and about threeinches apart, across th
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