PRUNE RASPBERRY BUSHES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 88, 15 April 1933, Page 6 (Supplement)

PRUNE RASPBERRY BUSHES.

It is plain that many amateurs have yet to realise the great value of pruning the raspberries as soon as possible after the fruit is all gathered. With the old canes removed early the young growths have much better opportunity to grow healthily and develop stout wood. Undoubtedly tho earlier pruning is done the less likely is the new growth to become infected with disease, and the less likely is the raspberry beetle pest to be a nuisance next summer, for with the old growth goes the diseased and pest-ridden to the garden fire. Every gardener should endeavour to complete the pruning of his raspberries without further delay. All that is required is to cut out down to ground level all the old canes of the last year's growth—the canes that fruited this season—and to leave at full length the sturdiest and best of the young canes that have grown up this last summer. The young canes should not be shortened at all just yet. The time for the necessary "topping" is not until next August. Surplus and Weakly growths can now be cut out, however.