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["Lon J. Rombough" <lonrom@hevanet.com>]

You might still get something from the roots.  Raspberries are propagated from root cuttings and the roots will take a lot of abuse and still grow.  It does take longer as they have to generate buds and push shoots from below the soil line. I worked at a berry nursery one time and they saved all the root trimmings when they bundled raspberry plants.  Those were stored in a cooler for several months, then planted.  They just dug a trench and dropped in handsful of roots.  Each clump put up good numbers of shoots.
-Lon Rombough
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On May 16, 2008, at 7:51 AM, Brungardt, Sam wrote:

Seems like you should be seeing green on all the plants by now, Ginda.
I'd suspect the plants may have been dried out when you received them.
About 2-3 weeks ago I planted some Caroline raspberries I got mail order
and every one of them is showing new growth, some from the one
year-old-canes and some from buds on the roots.  I'd ask them to replace
the plants that have not shown green yet. -- Sam Brungardt (St. Paul,
Minn.)