a northern slope is preferable to a southern slope
because not so quickly affected by drought. Good drainage is necessary,
and if planted on low ground where water is liable to stand at any time
the ground should be tiled or otherwise drained.

Raspberries may be planted either in the fall or spring, or the plants
may be dug in the fall, heeled in outside, covered with mulch, or they
may be stored in the cellar and planted in spring.

Plants bought from a nursery in the spring should be unpacked
immediately on arrival, the roots dipped in thin mud, then heeled in
until permanently planted, even if the delay is but a day or two.

The tops of the plants should be cut, leaving but a few inches, and if
any blossoms appear the first season it would be better to remove them
to prevent fruiting. It would be expecting too much of a newly
transplanted plant to make much of any growth and produce fruit the same
season. If allowed to fruit the first season but little fruit could be
expected at best, and it would leave the plant dwarfed if indeed it were
not killed outright.

The suckers that come up the first season will produce the next season's
crop, after which they die down and should be removed, other suckers
taking their places annually. Not over two or three suckers should be
allowed to each plant the first year; after the first year leave five to
eight in each hill, depending on the kind of soil, fertility, etc.

When plants are cheap and plentiful it is customary to use two in each
hill to insure a good stand the first year, but it is reasonable to
expect, however, where there are two root systems in each hill instead
of one that in after years there would be more troublesome suckers to
remove than if there was but one root in each hill, and this is no small
matter with some varieties.

To obtain planting stock large clusters of roots may be divided to
propagate from, but these usually have but few fibrous roots and are not
as good as first year's growth suckers, springing from roots near the
parent plant. Red raspberries may also be propagated from root cuttings
or even from seeds, the latter not coming true to variety, however.

Plantings should preferably be made on ground plowed the fall previous,
but spring plowed ground will answer if thoroughly disced, harrowed and
planked and then repeated, to make the ground firm.

If the ground is poor add a liberal dressing of well decayed barnyard
dressing before plow