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Title: The fruit-growers guide-book
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Favor, Ernest Howard, 1878- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Fruit-culture. (from old catalog)
Publisher: St. Joseph, Mo., The fruit-grower
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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harvested. The Evergreen and Loganberry need to be grown ontrellis, as they make from twenty to forty feet of canea season, and it is out of the question to handle themon the ground. When on trellises, the wires are ar-ranged at levels of two and four feet, with the fruit bear-ing canes on the upper wires and the young canes on thelower. This keeps the canes where they can be reached,and as these kinds of berries have such villainous thorns,they must be trained so that they can be handled with theleast amount of punishment from the thorns. As soon asthe fruiting is over, the old canes are cut away and theyoung canes are placed on the upper trellis where they willreceive the full sunlight and air. Pruning Brambles 19: Black raspberries, or back-caps as they are sometimescalled, are pruned quite like the blackberry. The new-canes are pinched at a couple of feet from the ground tomake them branch out, and these laterals are cut backabout half in late winter or before growth begins in the
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Dewberry canes trained to a post,canes in a liil.i. From three to five 1&8 The Friiit-Growers Guide-Book spring. Black-caps should be tied up to a trellis where thevariety grows very vigorously and is liable to fall downunder a load of fruit. Red raspberries are pruned and trained in the samemanner as black raspberries, except that it is not neces-sary to pinch the canes in the summer. : Dewberries are sometimes trained on stakes or trel-lises, as they make a great amount of wood and very longcanes. A common method of handling dewberries is togrow them in hills fifteen feet apart. Let the canes re-main on the ground without a trellis. Just as soon as thecrop has all been harvested mow all of the canes off closeto the ground, gather them up and haul out of the field.!New ones will quickly appear and make a good growthduring the remainder of the summer and be in good shapeto produce a crop of fruit the next spring. This is rathervigorous treatment but it serves as a quick and easy m

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