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Show PRUNE RASPBERRY CANES Object Should Be to Grow Berries, Not Woody Growth Cleaning Out Destroys Many Insects. Though the two main varieties cl raspberry, black and red, need slightly slight-ly different treatment, the time, and manner of pruning are greatly similar with both kinds. The blackcaps do not put out new growth from the root stalks, as the red varieties do, but new plants are started from tips of the old plants These are bent over and covered lightly light-ly in August, after which they send out rootlets and can be taken up the following spring as new plants, to b set out where they are needed. These new plants need to be pinched back to a height of 18 inches, so that they will throw out more lateral branches. These are the branches which bear fruit, and It is very important impor-tant that they be numerous. In addition to this first pruning, the winter or early spring pruning should be done to get rid of the old canea r fix AyS Fine Crop ot Raspberries Result of Careful Pruning. which are past bearing, and which only s::p the plant system of its strength. It is the hurries that we want to grow, not so particularly tho woody canes. This cleaning out of the old wood al-fo al-fo aids in getting rid of many insect pests if the work is done before they lome out from shelter in the spring, i Ml these old canes should be burned 'o destroy the insect life hidden in and round them. Many do this in the all, but the main point is that it bn 'one, and at some time before swing growth starts. |