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Show GEO W "LACK RASPBERRY Parent Bush May Be Filled vvithj Roots of Young Plants by October If Tips Have Increased. Many of our readers will not know what the illustration represents until we explain, says Green's Fruit Grower The cut is intended to illustrate ami tell how to propagate the black rasp, berry. In July, or as soon as the canes ot the black raspberry plant are long enough to bend over and reach ule ground, we bury the tip end of each cane two to three inches deep in the soil, cover them with earth and place a stone over the earth to hold the bent branch in position undetached from the parent plant. There is B0 difficulty in securing from six to ten plants from the canes of a black raspberry rasp-berry bush as they naturally grow. But if you will nip off the tip of the young canes in June and plant, each cane will make from six to ten canes, and in this way you can greatly Increase the number of tips to be buried for the . . Propagating Black Raspberries. purpose of making young plants for transplanting the next spring. So that if the tips have been increased by nipping back as suggested the ground about the parent bush may be filled with the roots of the young plants by October. When digging the plants the next spring the canes are detached from the parent plant, leaving the stems four to six inches long on each plant. |