. How to propagate and grow fruit. h. Keep them wellwed or failure is certain. Usually strongplants are made by fall, and in diggingthese you can leave detached roots in thesoil to spring up and renew the row. Theparent plant, after removing most of theroots, may be planted in a new bed. Ingreen-houses very small pieces of rootsmake good plants, the same as with redraspberries. The more you spade among apatch of blackberries the more suckers willspring up. Therefore, if you have a fielddesigned for fruit do not dig plants are kinds of trailing blackberriesthat do not propagate fr
. How to propagate and grow fruit. h. Keep them wellwed or failure is certain. Usually strongplants are made by fall, and in diggingthese you can leave detached roots in thesoil to spring up and renew the row. Theparent plant, after removing most of theroots, may be planted in a new bed. Ingreen-houses very small pieces of rootsmake good plants, the same as with redraspberries. The more you spade among apatch of blackberries the more suckers willspring up. Therefore, if you have a fielddesigned for fruit do not dig plants are kinds of trailing blackberriesthat do not propagate from the root, butfrom tips like black raspberries. Propagating Currants. Few cuttings take root so rapidly as thecurrant. I cut the wood of the present sea-sons growth as soon as the leaves begin tofall, often stripping the leaves by hand. Ithen cut the wood into cuttings seven toeight inches long, tie in bundles of fifty,lay them in a trench with the butt end upand cover with two inches of fine soil over CURRANTS AND the butts. This being done the last ofAugust when the eartii is warm, the cut-tings will callus over and send out roots infrom ten to twenty days. I often find thecuttings so well rooted it requires somepulling to get them apart at planting. _ Iplant when I get time in the fall, often inNovember, in rows three feet apart. Ithrust down a spade to its full depth, swayis backwards and forwards, making quite ahole, then withdraw it and a boy slips intwo cuttings, one at each side of the progress in this way until the end ofthe row is reached. I then turn back andboth tread the earth as compactly as possi-ble on each side of the cuttings, sinkingour heels down hard. This treading is veryimportant work in planting aU cuttings, asit is no easy matter to compact the earth tothe depth of a foot from the surface. Whenthe field is planted thus we rvm a shovelplow between the rows, being careful tothrow the soil as near the cuttings as possi-ble and not
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