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Show Practical Plan Given to Propagate Raspberries Black raspberries are grown from root tips, mostly. If the ground is naturally nat-urally mellow they will generally root themselves in liberal quantity, but when ground is hard or Inclined to bake after rains or when maximum propagation is necessary the tips of the canes should be covered with soil to hold them in places and to facilitate facili-tate rooting. The tips are usually in condition for proper condition of the tips for rooting is Indicated by the abbreviated foliage or lack of foliage almost altogether on the terminals of the canes and bleached appearance of the tip. If the tips are buried before ready fur rooting they will generally continue growing in length or the tips die without striking root. When planting time comes, the roots and the -stool of roots are removed to a permanent per-manent location. The short piece of cane left to the roots will leaf out the following year, as a rule, but does not make much growth. New growth Is thrown up from buds under ground which form the plant for fruit bearing the following year, and so on throughout through-out the life of the plant. Bed varieties are increased from Fuckers thrown up around the parent plants, and from root cuttings. When propagated from root cuttings, the . plants are taken up in the late fall and all roots from one-eighth inch and up in diameter are cut in pieces about two Inches long. These are rsuaily buried in sand in small boves and set away in a cool cellar until the following spring. |