Show the catawissa Cata raspberry there can be no longer any question as to thelin erit orthis of this raspberry we have now dow tested it for three years and pronounce it to be a real desidee adum it bears two crops of fruit in a season but as many persons have other kinds which are better bearers at the time of ripening of the first crop they combine the energies of the cane upon the second crop which ripens late in the autumn indeed continues to ripen from september to the first of november should the weather not become too severe at this writing november we have upon the bushes large and perfect fruit highly flavored as they would be in july yesterday october from the canes of five stools a litte basket of fine fruit was taken and the same quantity twice a week for some weeks we know of several pretty extensive growers of the cata catawissa who cut down all the canes after ceasing ce asins m to bear in the fall close to the ground this will give strength to the new canes the ensuing season which supplies the late crop the early crop is taken from the wood allowed to remain over winter those who prefer the two crops must about the middle of this month prune the vines ready for staking in the spring bend them carefully down to the ground and cover them with from three to six inches of earth shaped to a point on the top when this years wood I 1 is removed cover the stools with an inch or two of soil banked up in the same way we have found this better than any other protection against frost the way to propagate this raspberry is to take up the roots say the latter end of january or beginning of february cut them up into inh pieces as the eyes may indicate plant them in a box of sand about one inch under the surf ace place under glass in a hotbed and keep moderately moist one old stool will produce from twelve to twenty new canes |