The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1876-03-17
RAsPBERRIRRs.

Second in the order of ripening
comes the raspberry. Although sec
ond on the list, think it deserves first
rank az fruit for profit.
The strawberry, although it is deli
cious in flavor and fit for the palate of
an epicure, yet is ephemeral in its
Character. It lasts but q day and is
gone, while the raspberry can be dried
and is but little iRferier to the fresh
fruit. When grown largely for mark
ct, if the supply should exceed the de-
mand, the surplus is easily dried and
will in the dried state sell at paying
prices. Raspberries should be in rows
not less than six and better eight feet
apart, and the plants about two feet
apart in the rows. The culture Is about
the same each year as a row of corn re-
quires-keeping the ground clear Of
weeds and the surface leose. Plant in
the spring early, and at the approach
of the first winter, cut all the growth
off within an inch or two of the ground
and draw a small mound of earth over
the root. AS the young shoots grow
each year they should be pinched at q
hight of from pa to feet, according
to the vigor of the cane, to induce the
laterals to grow, thereby forming a
kind OF hedge, each plant assisting to
support the others. After the fruit
has been gathered cut out the canes
that have borne and remove them so as
to allow room for the new shoot to de-
VelOp. Proceed thus from year to year
and you will reap a rich reward fol
the little bit of labor necessary to care
for them and keep them in order.
Davidson's Thornless is early and
free from thOrns, but very ordinary
frat. Seneca, good bat quite late
Mammoth Cluster, large, luscious anG
every way desirable, and Doolittle
good and popular. Many excellent
ones can be found in the timber along
our water courses; by observing then
at time of ripening and marking then
SO that they may be found again and
removed to the garden at the proper
season.
BLACKBERRIEs.
The same general directions for the
planting and care of raspberries will
apply to blackberries. No blackberry
has been found to excel the Kittatinny
so far.
have not attempted to give direc.
lions for commercial growers or the
market gardner, but for the amateur
and farmer, hoping that may induce
more persons to grow the delicious
fruits more abundantly. I know this
medicine is much easier taken than
Quinine and other vinainous doctors
stuff, and am convinced that if more
OF it was used, doctors would not build
such fine houses, and drug stores and
patient medicine Yenders would not be
SO plenty all over the country.
Plant your big fields of corn, and
wheat, raise your herds of cattle, in
crease your number of broad acres, and
lay up something for rainy day, but
while doing this don't forget that the
great Creator implanted In your breast
sentiment not given to the ''hog that
could see nothing but potatoes" SEN
timent that elevates man above and
beyond the mere groVeling instincts OF
the brute, sentiment that if properly
cultivated leads to higher, a purer,
and more lasting enjoyment of lite
and better fitting for the life to come
than mere qualification of the ami
NAL appetites of his nature can ever af-
ford. Cultivate fruits for your child
rem that they may be made better, and
not allowed to seek those pleasures that
l0re only to destroy.