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region on Lake Micliigan, Avliere it would probably succeed, 

 and be safe to plant for market purposes, but generally i 

 sbould only find a place in the garden of the amateur. 



Philadelphia. — This is the only red raspberry we have yet 

 that has proved hardy enough for extensive planting here, and 

 its value is only beginning to be understood. Several reasons 

 have conspired to prevent small-fruit growers from investing 

 in this variety: A well-grounded distrust of the hardiness of 

 all red raspberries, the dearness of plants, owing to their slow 

 propagation, — as it makes comparatively few suckers, — and for 

 the same reason, the longer time required to get a plantation 

 into full bearing. This habit of making few suckers, is, how- 

 'ever, one of the most valuable of its characteristics for the fruit- 

 grower, when a plantation is once established. 



The blackcap raspberry growing has been a little overdone, 

 and the growers are considering the propriety of planting 

 something else. And the Philadeljihia is more promising of 

 remuneration than any ^ther red raspberry we have, and will 

 continue to be until we have one of better fruit that is equally 

 hardy. 



Arnold's Hybrid {red). — This new raspberry, from Canada, 

 I have planted a couple of years. In hardiness it is probably 

 equal to the Philadelphia, while in vigor of cane and size of 

 fruit, it is inferior to most, and it has the objectionable habit 

 of innumerable suckers. 



Arnold's Hybrid {white). — This has some characteristics that 

 give it more value. It has larger fruit, of a delicate flavor, and 

 is more really white than any other raspberry I have seeu. It is 

 more hardy than most of its class, though I doubt whether it 

 will prove as safe as the Purple Cane for general planting. 



These are claimed to be hybrids, but I fail to see any evi- 

 dence of such a character. They have the excessive suckering 

 habit of their class, and will not root from the tips. These 

 facts alone are conclusive, to my mind, where they belong, in 

 spite of their fall-bearing tendency, which manifests itself 

 occasionally in varieties of the R. Striqosiis, no less than in the 

 R. Occidentalis, 



