This section is from the book "The Gardener's Monthly And Horticulturist V28", by Thomas Meehan. See also: Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long.
" F. B.," Cannelton, Pa., has a very fine blackberry wild; also, a white variety with it, that he desires to remove to his garden in fall. It will be very important to separate them carefully, to prevent mixture. To this end, the stems of each should be marked now, and as soon as the leaves change color in fall, dig them up and carefully wash out the earth, so as to see certainly the separate root attachments. If propagation is desired, dig out as wide a space as possible; as the plant is propagated by pieces of the root, and every piece is of value. Pieces about two inches long will do, and these may be cut and set horizontally, at a depth of two or three inches beneath the surface, in any light soil where the water will not lie during winter. In wet soil, the pieces may rot. The stems themselves, after the roots are cut away for propagation, may be cut to the ground, and these stumps planted in the garden, covering them with earth or other material (to be drawn away in spring), the object being to keep the plants from being lifted out of the ground by frost.
 
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