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Show RASPBERRY 1PJ HOME GARDEN Available Space That May Be Devoted De-voted to Growing of Fruit Determines Deter-mines Number of Plants. (Preparrd by the United States Department ot Agriculture.) While the raspberry is best adapted tp the cooler sections of the L'nrted States, it does fairly well in some of the warmer portions, but not in the hot parts of the country. Wherever the wild raspberry grows naturally people will do well to provide one or more Raspberries Planted on Linear System and Trained to Wire Trellis. the cultivated varieties in the home garden, suggests the United States Department De-partment of Agriculture. The, available space that may be devoted to the growing of raspberries will largely determine the number of plants to be set, but as a rule 50 to 100 will be sufficient for the average family. The time for planting raspberries paries In different parts of the United States, according to local conditions. In general the plants should be set in the ?arly spring throughout the eastern east-ern United States, but on the Pacific coast they should be set during the rainy season at such times ss ls possible pos-sible to do the work. Raspberries require a fairly rich soil which should be thoroughly prepared and loosened to a depth of ten or twelve inches. In no case should they be planted on land that has just been ln sod, but should follow some cultivated culti-vated crop. Before planting, the tops should be cut back to about six Inches in height and set slightly deeper than they formerly grew. - After they are set the remainder of the top should be cut off to remove any disease that may be present. The plants should be set In rows six to eight feet apart and two feet apart ln the row for red varieties and three to four feet apart for the black and purple varieties. During the first year the plants will ' produce the canes that bear the fruit the second year, and frequent cultivation cultiva-tion should bs maintained throughout the season in order to conserve moisture mois-ture and keep down weeds. Aipong the leading varieties of the red raspberries rasp-berries are Cuthbert, King and Itanere or St. Regis, the latter often producing produc-ing two crops in a season, one ln the spring on the old wood and the second crop in the fall on the tips of the new wood. -Among the leading purple varieties va-rieties are Cardinal, Columbia and Hoyal or Hoy a I Purple. Among the black varieties are Gregg, Cumberland. Cumber-land. Older and Pearl or Black Pearl. The variety to be planted, however, depends upon locality, as certain varieties va-rieties are better adapted to cr:ain locations than others. During the spring months raspberries should be given frequent cultivation, and nfier the picking period the old canes should be removed. The young canes of all varieties, except Itanere or St. Regis, may be pinched back (luring the summer sum-mer to give the plants the proper shape. The United States Department of Agriculture has a farmers' bulletin, No. SS7, on raspberry culture, which contains further particulars on the management- of raspberry growing, and a list of varieties suited to different differ-ent localities. |